Miss Amy Johnson with a de Havilland DH-60 Gipsy Moth at Stag lane, 5 May 1930. Central press/Getty Images)
5th May 1930: 26-year-old English aviator Amy Johnson (1903 – 1941) standing in front of her Gipsy Moth just before she undertook a 19-day solo flight to Australia. She died in 1941 when an aircraft she was ferrying crashed into the Thames estuary. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)