Hey, Dan here and welcome to FunKid Science Weekly, Reach for the Sky Special,

the podcast. They explores the future of aviation from the design and sustainability of future planes,

to the people who keep them flying and make sure our experience is top-not notch. In today's episode, we're in Bristol,

exploring aerospace Bristol and finding out all about this city's amazing aviation history.

You can hear all about a plane that went faster than the speed of sound and how aircrafts

managed to stay in the air.

First up, let's catch up with Amy.

Today, she's further north than Bristol in Hull, finding out about another Amy.

Amy Johnson, the world's most famous woman pilot.

Amy! the world's most famous woman pilot. Amy Aviation's British Aeronautics.

There are loads of places around the UK which are associated with Britain's aerospace industry.

Some of them might be near to where you live.

Let's spin the propeller and see where we're headed today.

We're off to Kingston-upon-Hull. Let's get ready for take-off.

Kingston-upon-Hull is in the north of the UK. It's a big city in an area called the East

Riding of Yorkshire. Now, whilst Hull has its own airport, that's not why we're here. Hull

was home to an amazing pilot and she was another Amy. Amy Johnson. Amy Johnson was born

in 1903, the very early days of aviation.

By the time she was 26, she'd not only got her pilot's license, but an engineer's license too.

And just two years later, in 1930, she undertook an enormous journey, a solo flight from the UK all the way to Australia.

It was the first time that a woman had made a solo flight of that length. It took her 19 days.

At the end of her journey, she was exhausted, sick from the fumes of petrol and burned and blistered from

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