FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.
GIRL'S LONE VENTURE.
MISS JOHNSON STARTS.
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, LONDON, May 5.
Considerable interest is being taken in Miss Amy Johnson's plan to make a lone flight to Australia. The intrepid girl left Croydon this morning in brilliant sunlight. A small group of friends cheered her and bade her farewell.
Miss Johnson is a slim, attractive girl with bobbed hair and a constant smile. Her preparations have been most careful. Sho intends to fly in hops of 1000 miles a day. She admits that sho hopes to lower Bert Hinkler's record.
A reserve petrol tank has been installed in front of tho passenger cock-pit in her machine, tho total capacity of which is now 80 gallons. This is expected to ensure a flight of 1400 miles, nearly four times tho normal range of Cipsy Moths. Before starting Miss Johnson said tho flight was tho outcome of a long-cherished ideal, Sho now held an engineer's and a pilot's ticket and felt confident she could meet any emergency.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 11
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