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East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai


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Why not keep going?

amy-johnsonDo they still have aviation races?

OK, let’s start from the beginning.

Amy Johnson was one of those women that always fascinated me – as a person, and as a representative of a category, a group of people.
Amy Johnson was an aviatrix.
Now, maybe today theĀ  term is exist and politically incorrect, but I live at the borders of the Empire, so I can shrug it off – Amy Johnson was a pilot, a flyer, and yes, an aviatrix.
She took to the sky escaping a career as a solicitor in London.

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