Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering British 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.
She did this in a variety of aircraft but she was probably most famously known for her first, a Gypsy Moth she named 'Jason'
At the onset of World War Two she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) where she would deliver planes to airfields for the RAF. During one of these flights she drifted off course and crashed into the Thames Estuary. Amy managed to parachute out of her aircraft, but what happened next is still shrouded in mystery
