Amy Johnson - Twenty Days: 6 May 1930

Available for over a year

Amy prepares to fly from Austria to Turkey but finds that the quality of servicing the aircraft on the ground in Vienna is not as she hoped and things get a little difficult in the air with a bit of emergency refuelling. Twenty Days is an evidence-based, first-person retelling of Amy’s story from the Amy Johnson Arts Trust. It covers the highs, the lows and the unexpected incidents that the 26-year-old Hull woman experienced on her route to making history. Twenty Days is based on Amy’s own records of her flight, on contemporary press reports and the telegrams she sent home to her parents back in Hull throughout her gruelling 20-day passage in May 1930 from Croydon Airport to Darwin in Australia in her Gipsy Moth aeroplane called “Jason.” Twenty Days has been written by Hull writer and playwright Dave Windass and Amy’s part is performed by Rachel Harris