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Flight Determined on Two Months Ago. MAPS BOUGHT BY PRIENDS. LONDON, January 1. The -"Daily Mail" says Miss Amy Johnson has planned a solo flight of 8000 miles from London to Peking. She will start this morning if conditions permit, but late last night there was a prospect of fog.
"I was determined on this flight two months ago," Miss Johnson said. "I have done everything myself, and so that my plans should not leak out I got my friends to buy at different shops maps of the countries over which I must pass. P "I expect to reach
Moscow, via Berlin and Warsaw, in three days, where the landing wheels will be replaced byskis. "From Moscow I shall go to Samara, and thence by Omsk, following the trans-Siberian railway to Irkutsk and Chita, and across the Gobi Desert to Peking.
"This trip thrills me more than the flight tp Australia, because much of the route is unknown, and beyond Moscow •there are no recognised landing places. I shall always wear a parachute." Miss Johnson .proposes to come back by another route. .
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Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 7
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