17 MAY 1930, Page 3

Miss Amy Johnson's Flight Few feats in the air, since

long flights became normal, have 'earned more admiration than that of Miss Amy Johnson, who is only twenty-two years old and is flying to Australia alone. By reaching Calcutta in eight days she beat by two days the " record " of Mr. Hinkler. The success so . far of this girl who is necessarily her own mechanic and navigator is an astonishingly welcome testimony to the great future of flying. She' has coolly surmounted all the difficulties of flying over jungles and deserts and deserted seas and has defied -atrociously bad visibility and a blinding sandstorm. Her endurance is perhaps her most remark- able quality. Her journey is now interrupted by damage to her aeroplane through. a forced landing near Rangoon.