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133_102	"Sixteen rounds of shells were fired and the plane dived into the Thames Estuary. We all thought it
133_103	was an enemy plane until the next day when we read the papers and discovered it was Amy. The
133_104	officers told us never to tell anyone what happened."
133_105	In 2016, Alec Gill, a historian, claimed that the son of a ship's crew member stated that Johnson
133_106	had died because she was sucked into the blades of the ship's propellers; the crewman did not
133_107	observe this to occur, but believes it is true.
133_108	As a member of the ATA with no known grave – her body was never recovered – Johnson is commemorated
133_109	(under the name Amy V. Johnson) by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Air Forces
133_110	Memorial at Runnymede.
133_111	Honours and tributes
133_112	In June 1930, Johnson's flight to Australia was the subject of a contemporary popular song, "Amy,
133_113	Wonderful Amy", composed by Horatio Nicholls and recorded by Harry Bidgood, Jack Hylton, Arthur
133_114	Lally, Arthur Rosebery and Debroy Somers. She was also the guest of honour at the opening of the
133_115	first Butlins holiday camp, in Skegness in 1936. From 1935 to 1937, Johnson was the President of
133_116	the Women's Engineering Society.
133_117	A collection of Amy Johnson souvenirs and mementos was donated by her father to Sewerby Hall in
133_118	1958. The hall now houses a room dedicated to Amy Johnson in its museum. In 1974, Harry Ibbetson's
133_119	statue of Amy Johnson was unveiled in Prospect Street, Hull where a girls' school was named after
133_120	her (the school closed in 2004). In 2016 new statues of Johnson were unveiled to commemorate the
133_121	75th anniversary of her death. The first, on 17 September, was at Herne Bay, close to the site she
133_122	was last seen alive, and the second, on 30 September, was unveiled by Maureen Lipman near Hawthorne
133_123	Avenue, Hull, close to Johnson's childhood home.
133_124	In 2017 The Guardian listed the Amy Johnson bronze as one of the "best female statues in Britain".
133_125	A blue plaque commemorates Johnson at Vernon Court, Hendon Way, in Childs Hill, London NW2. She is
133_126	commemorated with a green plaque on The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull. She is commemorated with
133_127	another blue plaque in Princes Risborough where she lived for a year.
133_128	Buildings named in Johnson's honour include
133_129	"Amy Johnson Building" housing the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the
133_130	University of Sheffield.
133_131	"Amy Johnson Primary School" situated on Mollison Drive on the Roundshaw Estate, Wallington,
133_132	Surrey, which is built on the former runway site of Croydon Airport.
133_133	"The Hawthornes @ Amy Johnson" in Hull, a major housing development by Keepmoat Homes on the site
133_134	of the former Amy Johnson School.
133_135	Amy Johnson Comet Restoration Centre at Derby Airfield, where the Mollison's DH.88 Comet Black
133_136	Magic is being restored to flying condition.
133_137	Amy Johnson House in Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon was named for her; built in the 20th-century it
133_138	was demolished in the mid 2010s.
133_139	Other tributes to Johnson include a KLM McDonnell-Douglas MD-11, and after that aircraft was
133_140	retired, a Norwegian Air UK Boeing 787-9, named in her honour, and "Amy's Restaurant and Bar" at
133_141	the Hilton hotels at both London Gatwick and Stansted airports are named after her.
133_142	"Amy Johnson Avenue" is a main road running northwards from Tiger Brennan Drive, Winnellie, to
133_143	McMillans Rd, Karama, In Darwin, Australia.
133_144	"Amy Johnson Way" is a road linking commercial premises in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, adjacent to
133_145	Blackpool Airport. It is also the name of a road in Clifton Moor, York.
133_146	"Johnson Road" is one of the roads built on the site of the former Heston Aerodrome in west London.
133_147	In 2011 the Royal Aeronautical Society established the annual Amy Johnson Named Lecture to
133_148	celebrate a century of women in flight and to honour Britain's most famous woman aviator. Carolyn
133_149	McCall, Chief Executive of EasyJet, delivered the Inaugural Lecture on 6 July 2011 at the Society's
133_150	headquarters in London. The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in
133_151	1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot's licence.
133_152	Over a six-month period, inmates of Hull Prison built a full-size model of the Gipsy Moth aircraft
133_153	used by Johnson to fly solo from Britain to Australia. In February 2017 this went on public display
133_154	at Hull Paragon Interchange.
133_155	In 2017, Google commemorated Johnson's 114th birthday with a Google Doodle. In 2017 the airline
133_156	Norwegian painted the tail fin of two of its aircraft with a portrait of Johnson. She is one of the
133_157	company's "British tail fin heroes", joining Queen singer Freddie Mercury, children's author Roald
133_158	Dahl, England's World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore and aviation entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker.
133_159	A mural reading QUEEN OF THE AIR (which was a nickname the British press gave Johnson) was painted
133_160	in Cricklewood railway station to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of women obtaining the
133_161	right to vote in the United Kingdom.
133_162	St Mary's Church in Beverley, East Yorkshire announced their intention of installing a stone
133_163	carving of Amy Johnson as part of a programme of celebrating women in the restoration of the
133_164	stonework of the medieval church in 2021. The other eight figures will include fellow engineer and
133_165	WES member Hilda Lyon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Seacole, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Helen
133_166	Sharman and Ada Lovelace.
133_167	In popular culture
133_168	Johnson's life has been the subject of a number of treatments in film and television, some more
133_169	accurately biographical than others. In 1942, a film of Johnson's life, They Flew Alone, was made
133_170	by director-producer Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle as Johnson, and Robert Newton as
133_171	Mollison. The movie is known in the United States as Wings and the Woman. Amy! (1980) was an
133_172	avant-garde documentary written and directed by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey and semiologist
133_173	Peter Wollen. A 1984 BBC television film Amy starred Harriet Walter in the title role. In the 1991
133_174	Australian television miniseries The Great Air Race, aka Half a World Away, based on the 1934
133_175	MacRobertson Air Race, Johnson was portrayed by Caroline Goodall.
133_176	Johnson earned a passing mention in other works such as the 2007 British film adaption of Noel
133_177	Streatfeild's 1936 novel Ballet Shoes, wherein the character Petrova is inspired by Johnson in her
133_178	dreams of becoming an aviator.
133_179	In radio, the 2002 BBC Radio broadcast The Typist who Flew to Australia, a play by Helen Cross,
133_180	presented the theme that Johnson's aviation career was prompted by years of boredom in an
133_181	unsatisfying job as a typist and sexual adventures including a seven-year affair with a Swiss
133_182	businessman who married someone else.
133_183	In music, Johnson inspired a number of works, including the song "Flying Sorcery" from Scottish
133_184	singer-songwriter Al Stewart's album, Year of the Cat (1976). A Lone Girl Flier and Just Plain
133_185	Johnnie (Jack O'Hagan) sung by Bob Molyneux, and Johnnie, Our Aeroplane Girl sung by Jack
133_186	Lumsdaine. Queen of the Air (2008) by Peter Aveyard is a musical tribute to Johnson. Indie pop
133_187	band The Lucksmiths used a clip of her Australia welcome speech as an intro to their song The
133_188	Golden Age of Aviation.
133_189	More fictionalised portrayals include a Doctor Who Magazine comic story in 2013 entitled "A Wing
133_190	and a Prayer", in which the time-travelling Doctor encounters Johnson in 1930. He tells Clara
133_191	Oswald her death is a fixed point in time. Clara realises what's important is that it appears Amy
133_192	died. They save her from drowning then took her to the planet Cornucopia. The character Worrals in
133_193	the series of books by Captain W. E. Johns was modelled on Amy Johnson.
133_194	Gallery
133_195	See also List of fatalities from aviation accidents List of female explorers and travelers
133_196	List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea
133_197	Notes References Further reading
133_198	Gillies, Midge. "Amy Johnson, Queen of the Air", London, Phoenix Paperback, 2004. .
133_199	Moolman, Valerie. Women Aloft (The Epic of Flight). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1981. .
133_200	Nesbitt, Roy. "What did Happen to Amy Johnson?" Aeroplane Monthly (Part 1), Vol. 16, no. 1,
133_201	January 1988, (Part 2) Vol. 16, no. 2, February 1988.

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"Sixteen rounds of shells were fired and the plane dived into the Thames Estuary. We all thought it

133_103

was an enemy plane until the next day when we read the papers and discovered it was Amy. The

133_104

officers told us never to tell anyone what happened."

133_105

In 2016, Alec Gill, a historian, claimed that the son of a ship's crew member stated that Johnson

133_106

had died because she was sucked into the blades of the ship's propellers; the crewman did not

133_107

observe this to occur, but believes it is true.

133_108

As a member of the ATA with no known grave – her body was never recovered – Johnson is commemorated

133_109

(under the name Amy V. Johnson) by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Air Forces

133_110

Memorial at Runnymede.

133_111

Honours and tributes

133_112

In June 1930, Johnson's flight to Australia was the subject of a contemporary popular song, "Amy,

133_113

Wonderful Amy", composed by Horatio Nicholls and recorded by Harry Bidgood, Jack Hylton, Arthur

133_114

Lally, Arthur Rosebery and Debroy Somers. She was also the guest of honour at the opening of the

133_115

first Butlins holiday camp, in Skegness in 1936. From 1935 to 1937, Johnson was the President of

133_116

the Women's Engineering Society.

133_117

A collection of Amy Johnson souvenirs and mementos was donated by her father to Sewerby Hall in

133_118

1958. The hall now houses a room dedicated to Amy Johnson in its museum. In 1974, Harry Ibbetson's

133_119

statue of Amy Johnson was unveiled in Prospect Street, Hull where a girls' school was named after

133_120

her (the school closed in 2004). In 2016 new statues of Johnson were unveiled to commemorate the

133_121

75th anniversary of her death. The first, on 17 September, was at Herne Bay, close to the site she

133_122

was last seen alive, and the second, on 30 September, was unveiled by Maureen Lipman near Hawthorne

133_123

Avenue, Hull, close to Johnson's childhood home.

133_124

In 2017 The Guardian listed the Amy Johnson bronze as one of the "best female statues in Britain".

133_125

A blue plaque commemorates Johnson at Vernon Court, Hendon Way, in Childs Hill, London NW2. She is

133_126

commemorated with a green plaque on The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull. She is commemorated with

133_127

another blue plaque in Princes Risborough where she lived for a year.

133_128

Buildings named in Johnson's honour include

133_129

"Amy Johnson Building" housing the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the

133_130

University of Sheffield.

133_131

"Amy Johnson Primary School" situated on Mollison Drive on the Roundshaw Estate, Wallington,

133_132

Surrey, which is built on the former runway site of Croydon Airport.

133_133

"The Hawthornes @ Amy Johnson" in Hull, a major housing development by Keepmoat Homes on the site

133_134

of the former Amy Johnson School.

133_135

Amy Johnson Comet Restoration Centre at Derby Airfield, where the Mollison's DH.88 Comet Black

133_136

Magic is being restored to flying condition.

133_137

Amy Johnson House in Cherry Orchard Road, Croydon was named for her; built in the 20th-century it

133_138

was demolished in the mid 2010s.

133_139

Other tributes to Johnson include a KLM McDonnell-Douglas MD-11, and after that aircraft was

133_140

retired, a Norwegian Air UK Boeing 787-9, named in her honour, and "Amy's Restaurant and Bar" at

133_141

the Hilton hotels at both London Gatwick and Stansted airports are named after her.

133_142

"Amy Johnson Avenue" is a main road running northwards from Tiger Brennan Drive, Winnellie, to

133_143

McMillans Rd, Karama, In Darwin, Australia.

133_144

"Amy Johnson Way" is a road linking commercial premises in Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, adjacent to

133_145

Blackpool Airport. It is also the name of a road in Clifton Moor, York.

133_146

"Johnson Road" is one of the roads built on the site of the former Heston Aerodrome in west London.

133_147

In 2011 the Royal Aeronautical Society established the annual Amy Johnson Named Lecture to

133_148

celebrate a century of women in flight and to honour Britain's most famous woman aviator. Carolyn

133_149

McCall, Chief Executive of EasyJet, delivered the Inaugural Lecture on 6 July 2011 at the Society's

133_150

headquarters in London. The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in

133_151

1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot's licence.

133_152

Over a six-month period, inmates of Hull Prison built a full-size model of the Gipsy Moth aircraft

133_153

used by Johnson to fly solo from Britain to Australia. In February 2017 this went on public display

133_154

at Hull Paragon Interchange.

133_155

In 2017, Google commemorated Johnson's 114th birthday with a Google Doodle. In 2017 the airline

133_156

Norwegian painted the tail fin of two of its aircraft with a portrait of Johnson. She is one of the

133_157

company's "British tail fin heroes", joining Queen singer Freddie Mercury, children's author Roald

133_158

Dahl, England's World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore and aviation entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker.

133_159

A mural reading QUEEN OF THE AIR (which was a nickname the British press gave Johnson) was painted

133_160

in Cricklewood railway station to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of women obtaining the

133_161

right to vote in the United Kingdom.

133_162

St Mary's Church in Beverley, East Yorkshire announced their intention of installing a stone

133_163

carving of Amy Johnson as part of a programme of celebrating women in the restoration of the

133_164

stonework of the medieval church in 2021. The other eight figures will include fellow engineer and

133_165

WES member Hilda Lyon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Seacole, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Helen

133_166

Sharman and Ada Lovelace.

133_167

In popular culture

133_168

Johnson's life has been the subject of a number of treatments in film and television, some more

133_169

accurately biographical than others. In 1942, a film of Johnson's life, They Flew Alone, was made

133_170

by director-producer Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle as Johnson, and Robert Newton as

133_171

Mollison. The movie is known in the United States as Wings and the Woman. Amy! (1980) was an

133_172

avant-garde documentary written and directed by feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey and semiologist

133_173

Peter Wollen. A 1984 BBC television film Amy starred Harriet Walter in the title role. In the 1991

133_174

Australian television miniseries The Great Air Race, aka Half a World Away, based on the 1934

133_175

MacRobertson Air Race, Johnson was portrayed by Caroline Goodall.

133_176

Johnson earned a passing mention in other works such as the 2007 British film adaption of Noel

133_177

Streatfeild's 1936 novel Ballet Shoes, wherein the character Petrova is inspired by Johnson in her

133_178

dreams of becoming an aviator.

133_179

In radio, the 2002 BBC Radio broadcast The Typist who Flew to Australia, a play by Helen Cross,

133_180

presented the theme that Johnson's aviation career was prompted by years of boredom in an

133_181

unsatisfying job as a typist and sexual adventures including a seven-year affair with a Swiss

133_182

businessman who married someone else.

133_183

In music, Johnson inspired a number of works, including the song "Flying Sorcery" from Scottish

133_184

singer-songwriter Al Stewart's album, Year of the Cat (1976). A Lone Girl Flier and Just Plain

133_185

Johnnie (Jack O'Hagan) sung by Bob Molyneux, and Johnnie, Our Aeroplane Girl sung by Jack

133_186

Lumsdaine. Queen of the Air (2008) by Peter Aveyard is a musical tribute to Johnson. Indie pop

133_187

band The Lucksmiths used a clip of her Australia welcome speech as an intro to their song The

133_188

Golden Age of Aviation.

133_189

More fictionalised portrayals include a Doctor Who Magazine comic story in 2013 entitled "A Wing

133_190

and a Prayer", in which the time-travelling Doctor encounters Johnson in 1930. He tells Clara

133_191

Oswald her death is a fixed point in time. Clara realises what's important is that it appears Amy

133_192

died. They save her from drowning then took her to the planet Cornucopia. The character Worrals in

133_193

the series of books by Captain W. E. Johns was modelled on Amy Johnson.

133_194

Gallery

133_195

See also List of fatalities from aviation accidents List of female explorers and travelers

133_196

List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea

133_197

Notes References Further reading

133_198

Gillies, Midge. "Amy Johnson, Queen of the Air", London, Phoenix Paperback, 2004. .

133_199

Moolman, Valerie. Women Aloft (The Epic of Flight). Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1981. .

133_200

Nesbitt, Roy. "What did Happen to Amy Johnson?" Aeroplane Monthly (Part 1), Vol. 16, no. 1,

133_201

January 1988, (Part 2) Vol. 16, no. 2, February 1988.