Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator, will be celebrated on a Royal Mail stamp issued on 29 April. Amy, who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia in 1930, is featured on the 2nd Class inland postage stamp in the series ”Extreme Endeavours”. The set also features the British Everest Team of 1953, Middle Eastern explorer Dame Freya Stark, round the world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester and Antarctic explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.
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