SOLO FLIGHT TO PEKING.
PLAN OF AMY JOHNSON.
READY FOR THE START.
ROUTE OVER GOBI DESERT.
SECRET PREPARATIONS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 1, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. U
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 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. " I expect to reach Moscow, via Berlin and Warsaw, in three days, where the landing wheels will be replaced by skis. " From Moscow I shall go to Samara, and thence by Omsk, following the transsiberian railway to Irkutsk and Chita, and across the Gobi Desert to Peking. " This trip thrills me mone than the flight to 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 9
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