Amy Johnson
Biography
Amy Johnson (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. In 1933, Katharine Hepburn's character in the film Christopher Strong was inspired by Johnson. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary. Her aircraft crashed into the Thames Estuary: she died after bailing out. Because her body was never recovered, the precise cause of her death—drowning, hypothermia or being pulled into a warship's moving propellers, is unknown and has been a subject of discussion since the possibility of friendly fire was raised in 1999.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
11 releases · 3 albums · active 1978–2007
- Other credits · 8
- Performance · 3
Studios: Spiral Subwave · Brail-O-Vision Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
- Mary MacGregor