Amy Johnson - A Pioneer of Flight
1903 Amy Johnson is born in Hull, England.
1928 She take flying lessons. She is clearly not a natural - at first, she is quite bad at it. But she doesn't give up and after a lot of hard work, finally learn to fly
1930 Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. The world starts to take notice of her, and her actions inspire many other pilots. When she returns to England, the king and queen are among the many people who send their congratulations.
1931 Johnson is the first person to travel from London to Moscow in one day. She then files across Siberia to Tokyo.
1936 Johnson becomes the first person to fly solo from England to South Africa
1941 Johnson’s plane crashes in the river Thames in London. People from a nearby ship try to save her, but they are too late.