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Two Female Civilians About to Pilot a Plane, 1931. 'As travelling at high speed seemed to be the first recreation of the new age, Sally Smith [ie the average British woman] had to get into that too. Well, if Amy Johnson could build her own plane, fly it, and service it, why shouldn't Sally? Even in the thirties there were still plenty of places to fly to, and in the process, break a record and win yourself a newspaper prize of say, £10,000, so nobody could complain it wasn't worth a candle'. From "Time To Remember - A New Era", 1931 (Reel 2); documentary about the world in the early 1930s.