William Jason, Jim and Me: The Real Amy Johnson
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Websites
Amy Johnson (RAF)
www.raf.mod.uk/history/amyjohnson.html
Semi-official RAF account of Amy Johnson's life and death.
Amy Johnson (Science Museum)
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/exhiblets/johnson/start.asp
An exhaustive online exhibit, including an image gallery and links.
History of the Air Transport Auxiliary
www.motherflieshurricanes.com/historyATA.htm
History of the ATA, its achievements and its critics. Poorly presented but worth reading.
Air Transport Auxiliary Roll of Honour
www.fleetairarmarchive.net/RollofHonour/ATA/ATA.html
A memorial to the dead of the ATA, Amy Johnson included.
History of Flight
www.flight100.org/history_intro.html
Timeline of the main events in aviation history from 3500BC to 2002AD.
History of the WASPs
www.womenofcourage.com/guide.htm
Transcript of a documentary on Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) – the US Air Force's counterpart of the ATA.
Salvage Squad
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/salvage_squad_2002/vehicles/gipsy/index.html
Channel 4's Squad reconstruct a Gipsy Moth, the type of light plane in which Amy Johnson made her long flight from England to Australia.
Women in Aviation
http://209.41.168.206/resources/history.cfm
From the first woman pilot (1908) to the first woman space shuttle commander (1999): a brief list of milestones from the Women in Aviation International website.
Books
Captain Amy Johnson by David Luff (Airlife Publishing, March 2002) £16.99
Biography of the young woman who flew solo from England to Australia in a small single-engine biplane when she had less than 100 hours flying experience, who was fêted wherever she went.
Amy Johnson by Constance Babington Smith (Collins, 1967). Out of print, may be available in libraries.
A classic biography of the record-breaking woman aviator.
Mollison by David Luff (Lidun, 1993) £16.95
Biography of Amy Johnson's husband that traces his flying career from a young RAF officer to his solo flights across the Sahara and the North and South Atlantic oceans.
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