"Amy" - Original Amy Johnson Sheet Music. 1930
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Title : "Amy".
Author : J. G. Gilbert & Horatio Nicholls.
Publisher : Lawrence Wright.
Binding : Paperback (Sheet Music)
Date : 1930.
Dimensions : 310mm x 240mm.
Pages : 4 pages (including covers).
Condition : Complete. Good condition.
Comments: Popular song "Specially Composed for the Home-coming of the Heroine of the England-Australia Flight 1930 - Miss Amy Johnson".
Amy Johnson was born in Hull, England in 1903. After saving enough money she joined the London Aeroplane Club where she learned to fly, navigate and repair aircraft becoming England's first licenced female ground mechanic. Shortly after qualifying for her pilot's licence she decided to try to make a name for herself by attempting a solo flight from England to Australia. After gaining some financial help from Lord Wakefield (Wakefield-Castrol Oil Co.) she purchased a DeHavilland Gypsy Moth. She succeeded in this 11,000 mile flight, landing in Australia on 24th May 1930. She was the first woman to fly this route solo. She later set other records from England to Japan and England to Cape Town. In 1932 she married the pilot, Captain Jim Mollison and together they attempted more record flights. Amy Johnson died in 1941 while working for the Air Transport Auxiliary Service, drowning after baling out of an Airspeed Oxford aircraft into the Thames estuary.
For more information on Amy Johnson, please click on the link below :
Inventory No. A-101
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