AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1931, Page 6

AVIATION

AMY JOHNSON.

FLIGHT ACROSS ASIA.

[United Press Association'—By Eieotrifl

Telegraph—Copyright. ]

LONDON, January 1

The “Daily Mai!” says:—Miss Amy Johnson plans a five thousand miles solo flight from London to Peking.. She is starting in the morning if the conditions permit, but late last night there was. the prospect of a fog. She said:—“l .determined on .K<£hlilfliglit two months ago. 1 have done everything myself, and so that my jjlans should not leak out, I got friends to buy r at : different shops, plans of the countries over which I must pass.” Miss Johnson expects to reach Moscow via Berlin and Warsaw in three days, where her landing wheels will, be replaced by skis. “From Moscow,” she says, “I shall go to Samara, and thence by Omsk following the Trans-Siberian Kailway to Irkutsk and Chita, and across the Gobi Desert to Peking. This trip thrills me more than the flight to Australia, because much more of the route is unknown; and 'beyond Moscow there if ; ianding places. I shall always wear a parachute.”

-v Miss Jolmston to eome -baokby:another route. LA : V ;'V AMY JOHNSTON. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, January I, g. Amy- Johnston arrived.', at Staglane •this raoi-ning ; in readiness for' a flight to Peking but a fog prevented her start. i , . ; ; .;•• ■•••