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AMY JOHNSON IS REMEMBERED AS A HEROIC PIONEER OF AVIATION AND DAREDEVIL.
Amy Johnson CBE, (1 July 1903 -- 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English aviator. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. Johnson flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary where she died during a ferry flightJohnson was born in Kingston upon Hull and was educated at Boulevard Municipal Secondary School (later Kingston High School).[1] and the University of Sheffield, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. She then worked in London as secretary to the solicitor William Charles Crocker. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's A Licence No. 1979 on 6 July 1929 at the London Aeroplane Club under the tutelage of Captain Valentine Baker. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's 'C' licence.