Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson was a very famous pilot. She was born on 1st July 1903. In 1930 Amy flew from London to Australia. She went there alone.
She flew in a small aeroplane called Jason. The journey took 19 days. She started her journey to Australia on Monday 5th May and finished on Saturday 24th May. She stopped many times at small airfields in Europe and Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean.
She was a national hero when she came back to Britain and a newspaper gave her ten thousand pounds as a prize.
Amy made many other flights. In 1931 she flew to Japan and Siberia and in 1936 she broke the record for a flight from London to Cape Town in South Africa.
She made some of the flights alone and some with another famous pilot called Jim Mollison. In August 1932 Amy married Jim and in 1933 they flew from Britain to the
United States of America. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west. Amy died in a plane accident in January 1941.

3. Choose the right answers.
1) Who did Amy Johnson fly from London to Australia with?
a) with another pilot
b) with two pilots
c) alone
2) How many days did the journey to Australia take?
a) a week
b) 19 days
c) 20 days
3) Where did she stop during the journey to Australia?
a) nowhere
b) on islands in the Pacific Ocean
c) at small airfields in Europe and Asia and on islands in the Pacific Ocean
4) Who gave Amy 10 thousand pounds after she came back to Britain?
a) the Queen
b) the King
c) a newspaper
5) What ocean did Amy cross from east to west?
a) the Atlantic Ocean
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