AMY JOHNSON’S TOUR
EXPERIENCE' IN GERMANY. BAD WEATHER ENCOUNTERED. (United Tress Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyrights Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. COLOGNE, Jan. 2. “I almost think that large signboards should be placed on a'll river sides as a guide to lone flyers,” said Miss Amy Johnson, facetiously referring to her adventures of yesterday. When heading for Berlin from Stagbine she encountered terrific head winds and decided to make Cologne, when she mistook the Meuse for the Rhine and flew along the river’s course and found herself above Liege late in the afternoon. After a delay of six hours, owing to -customs and other formalities, she departed for Berlin, but met atrocious weather and a. headon gale made reaching Berlin before dark an impossibility. Accordingly she turned back to Cologne, half frozen, hut cheery. She says that- if conditions are favourable she will cut out her call at Berlin and fly direct to Warsaw.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 7
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