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NEWSLETTER #64 - SEPTEMBER 2008 WORTH A SECOND GLANCE
AMY’S AUSTRALIAN AVRO
This card, published in London by Associated Photoprinters is titled. “The arrival of Miss Amy Johnson CBE in Sydney from Brisbane in the “Southern Sun”, her plane Jason flying overhead” (Copyright). However the publisher is claiming copyright over an image that is totally fake.
What is true is that Amy Johnson did fly from Brisbane to Sydney in an Avro Ten = Fokker FVii/3m of the first Australian National Airways, owned by Charles Kingsford-Smith. This was on 4th June 1930. It was in Brisbane that she first met Jim Mollison who was briefly employed by ANA – some reports say he was the pilot to Sydney.
The reason she arrived in this way was that the DH 60 Moth Jason had been badly damaged on landing at Brisbane and so could not possibly have accompanied the Avro to Sydney, and anyway why be flown if she could fly herself. Looking closer the Avro is also false, the “cut” part of the “cut and paste” has flattened the tyres in extracting the image from a ground view.
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