She made a new record only a year after learning to fly
Johnson received funding for her first plane from Lord Wakefield and her father, who has always been one of her biggest supporters. She bought a used de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH and gave it the name Jason after the company name of her father.
Johnson showed the world that a woman could rule the aviation industry after only a year of pursuing her new interest, which is one of the interesting facts about Amy Johnson. She took off from Croydon on May 5th, 1930, to travel to fly alone from England to Australia in 1930, earning her international acclaim. The distance was 17,600 kilometers, and she aimed to surpass the previous record of 15.5 days. Intercontinental aviation travel was essentially unheard of at the time. By today's standards, airplanes were incredibly fragile. Most individuals had never even been close to an airplane, therefore it was thought to be an extremely difficult feat.
She took flight from Croydon Airport on May 5, 1930. She finished the journey approximately 19 days after beginning it despite having virtually no prior flying experience. She had a challenging landing at Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. She landed on a grassy field covered in enormous anthills after missing the airfield. Six days later, she crashed her plane while attempting a downwind landing at Brisbane Airport, so she took Captain Frank Follett's flight to Sydney to wait for her plane to be fixed. Captain Lester Brain subsequently flew Jason to Mascot, Sydney. The Science Museum in London's Flight Gallery currently has G-AAAH "Jason" on permanent exhibit.
