Amy Johnson Lecture

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28/08/2011 By Royal Aeronautical Society | Leave a comment

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Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive, easyJet, speaks at the Society for the 2011 Amy Johnson Named Lecture. Thanks AIRBUS for supporting the event and to the Women in Aviation and Aerospace committee for orgainising the lecture.

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The Amy Johnson Lecture was established in 2011 by the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee to celebrate a century of women in flight and to honour Britain’s most famous woman aviator.
Amy Johnson CBE achieved world-wide fame when she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930 – only the third such solo flight. Prior to her flight, Amy set the first of a string of aviation records between 1930 and 1936 when she achieved her aircraft engineer’s licence – the first woman to do so in Britain. In 1940, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary as a ferry pilot, but sadly lost her life over the Thames Estuary while flying a twin-engine Airspeed Oxford.
The Lecture is traditionally held on or close to the 6th July to mark the date in 1929 when Amy Johnson achieved her pilot’s licence.

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