Comments on: Amy Johnson changes her mind

By: Airminded · Science Museum

Airminded · Science Museum — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:46:54 +0000

[...] another important individual aeroplane: Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth “Jason”, the one in which she flew solo from London to Darwin in 1930. [...]

By: Airminded · Duelling YouTubes

Airminded · Duelling YouTubes — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:40:55 +0000

[...] about her in relation to this song — The Golden Age of Aviation by the Lucksmiths — before. But I like it so much, it deserves a second [...]

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:17:16 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation and clarification, Patrick. That certainly makes sense for the inaudible word in the sample.

By: Patrick Taggart

Patrick Taggart — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:46:49 +0000

I produced a film in the mid 70’s for the BBC which I called WONDERFUL AMY. She did say those words on her arrival in Australia. The ‘indistinct’ word is ‘greetings’

By: RS

RS — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:12:35 +0000

Either way it’s a great song…from a brilliant band!

Oh and thank you for the original post. It bugged me no end not knowing who was speaking in the clip.

“A passing interest in the past…”

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:14:51 +0000

Thank you — I do believe you’re right! It’s a little indistinct at that point and I listened to it about 10 times trying to make sure what it was, but it does sound more like ‘mileage’, and that actually makes a lot more sense than ‘violence’. Oh well — ignore this post then, she may well have always been a bomb-them-back-to-the-stone-age kinda gal for all I know.

By: RS

RS — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:45:05 +0000

I am pretty confident she says the word “mileage” and not “violence”. I don’t think it was intended to be a political statement but one of the advocation of air travel.