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Amy Johnson, pioneering English aviator, c1930s. In 1930, Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in her DH60 Moth aeroplane 'Jason'. In 1932, she set a record for the fastest solo flight from England to Cape Town, South Africa, and in 1933 she flew non-stop across the Atlantic in a De Havilland biplane with her husband, James Mollison. Johnson joined the Air Transport Auxilary as a pilot in WWII, during which she was lost after baling out over the Thames estuary.