ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21020, 8 May 1930, Page 9

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA

FLIGHT BY MISS JOHNSON. ' ARRIVAL AT CONSTANTINOPLE. (United Press Association.) (Br Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) v CONSTANTINOPLE, May G. Miss Amy Johnson, who is flying to Australia, has arrived here. ; Tile first woman to gain an Air Ministry ground engineer’s license was a 20-ycar-old girl, Miss Amy Johnson, said a London paper recently. She is a member of the London Aerodrome Club, and' comes of a wealthy Midlands family. ..She is quite independent, however," for she makes a comfortable living by her skill with aircraft and engines. The possession of the engineer’s license means that Miss Johnson is now a fully-qualified pilot and can pass, out her own machines as being airworthy without consulting anyone else. - '• DELAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE. ‘ LEAKAGE IN PETROL TANK. " CONSTANTINOPLE, May 7. (Received May 7, at 11.30 p.m.) A leakage in the petrol tank has delayed Miss 'Amy Johnson on her flight to Australia. REPAIRS EFFECTED. ■ ANOTHER HOP COMMENCED. CONSTANTINOPLE, May V (Received May 8, at 1 a.m) Miss Amy Johnson effected repairs to the petroi tank of her plane and dVparted for Bagdad ROUTE TO BE TAKEN. SYDNEY AT END OF MAY. (Special to Daily Times.) ■ WELLINGTON, May 7. ihe SheH Company has received advice of the route which Miss Amy Johnson proposes taking in her Gypsy Moth on her flight to Australia. It is as 'follows: Vienna, Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad* Bushire, Bandar Abbas Jarachi, Jodhpur, Jhansi, Allahabad, Calcutta, _ Akyab, Rangoon, Bangkok,. Taiping, Singapore, Batavia, Sourabava Atanboea. > * ’ Miss Australian itinerary will be from Port Darwin through Central Queensland to Sydney, refuelling at and Charleville.. The regiapa^'®n her machine are U-AAAH. Miss Johnson hopes to be in Sydney by the end of May. .