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The biggest problem facing any biographer of Amy Johnson is that Constance Babington Smith got there first. Her seminal life, written in 1966, told most of what there is to tell about Amy in elegant prose. - The Sunday Times Many books have been written about Britain's pioneer woman pilot - the young Yorkshire secretary whose solo flight to Australia in 1930 made her an enduring aviation folk hero. But this splendid biography, published in 1967, remains quite the best of them all. - The Guardian Constance Babington Smith's biography of Amy Johnson is a wonderful book about a wonderful woman. - Tracey Curtis-Taylor

The biggest problem facing any biographer of Amy Johnson is that Constance Babington Smith got there first. Her seminal life, written in 1966, told most of what there is to tell about Amy in elegant prose. - The Sunday Times Many books have been written about Britain's pioneer woman pilot - the young Yorkshire secretary whose solo flight to Australia in 1930 made her an enduring aviation folk hero. But this splendid biography, published in 1967, remains quite the best of them all. - The Guardian Constance Babington Smith's biography of Amy Johnson is a wonderful book about a wonderful woman. - Tracey Curtis-Taylor

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Constance Babington Smith was a contemporary of Amy Johnson and similarly drawn into the aviation craze of the 1930s. One of nine children she initially showed her writing talent with articles published in Aeroplane magazine from 1937 to 1939. With the outbreak of war she joined the WAAF, serving with the Central Interpretation Unit (CIU) at Medmenham in Buckinghamshire. By 1943 she was leading a team of 12 analysing photographs from high-altitude Mosquitoes and Spitfire reconnaissance and was credited with the discovery of the V1 base at Peenemünde. Appointed MBE in 1945 she wrote a memoir of her wartime work, Evidence in Camera. Her biography of Amy Johnson was first published in 1967 and remains the definitive account of Amy's life.

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