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	Jean Batten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Gardner Batten CBE (September 15, 1909–November 22, 1982) was a New Zealand aviator.
		Jean Batten was created Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1936.
		Jean Batten used De Havilland Gipsy Moth Biplanes for her early trips, G-AALG (originally owned by The Prince of Wales), for the England to India flight, G-AARB for England to Australia flight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Batten (473 words)

	New Zealand Aviators
		Jean Batten was a pioneer aviator in the 1920s and 1930s when pilots proved to the world the potential of air travel as a means of transport.
		Jean Batten was born in Rotorua in 1909.
		Jean, herself died alone in Majorca on 22 November, 1982 where, unknown, she was buried in a communal paupers' grave with the world unaware of her fate for a further five years.
	www.auckland-airport.co.nz /Community/aviators.php?batten (544 words)

	Jean Batten (1909 -1982), New Zealand Pioneer Aviatrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jean Batten was the finest woman pilot of the golden age of aviation.
		Jean Batten grew up in New Zealand and developed a love for aviation than overcame her desire to be a concert pianist.
		Jean Batten was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, in 1909, the daughter of an impoverished dentist and a dominating mother.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/jean_batten_bio.html (5833 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Jean Batten : www.nzedge.com
		Jean Batten was one of the most famous people in the world in her time.
		Jean Batten who was presented to Their Majesties at the second Court on May 12, 1936 by Mrs W J Jordon, wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner.
		Jean Batten’s last visit to New Zealand was in 1977 where she was the guest of honour at the opening of the Aviation Pioneers Pavilion at the Museum in Transport and Technology in Auckland.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/batten.html (3383 words)

	Jean Batten book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jean Batten’s New Zealand passport was found among her sparse possessions but, as a result of an administrative bungle by the local Spanish authorities, neither the New Zealand government or any of her relatives were ever informed.
		The documentary followed Jean Batten’s descent into lonely obscurity in wartime Britain, in Jamaica, Spain and Tenerife; her astonishing return to the aviation stage as a faded celebrity in her sixties, and her final loneliness that culminated in the five-year mystery of her disappearance and death in the room of a small hotel in Majorca.
		Jean’s spectacular career and her covert private life are traced by the film with footage of her flights, narration from her unpublished memoirs, reconstructions of some of her most terrifying moments in the air and interviews with many people who knew her.
	www.ianmackersey.com /jean_batten_book/jean_batten_book.html (1962 words)

	Jean Batten- Part Two
		War was in the air once again, and Jean was involved in fundraising campaigns for the war effort, and was even commissioned into active service- but she never flew again.
		It was apparently during this time that Jean fell in love again with another RAF pilot, but this was as tragic as her other love affairs.
		With the end of the war, Jean and Ellen still lived together in a number of places around the world, until Ellen was forced to finally abandon her daughter.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_zealand_history/51456 (452 words)

	Rotorua Museum, New Zealand - Things to See & Do - Jean Batten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They went wild when 28 year old Jean Batten landed her single-engine Percival Gull aeroplane at Mangere aerodrome after a daring ten and a half hour flight across the Tasman.
		Jean became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia - and back, when she landed in Croydon on the 29th April 1935.
		Jean Batten again made the headlines on 24th October 1937 when she landed at Croydon, England at the end of a solo record breaking flight.
	www.rotoruanz.com /rotorua_museum/jean_batten.htm (826 words)

	Jean Gardner Batten
		Jean Gardner Batten, a strikingly beautiful New Zealand woman, became one of the world's most popular and famous pilots when she established several individual flight distance records in the 1930s.
		Batten was extremely close to her mother and thrived on parental attention.
		Batten was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on September 15, 1909, to a modest dentist's family.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/batten/EX24.htm (1452 words)

	Jean Batten- Part 1
		The family moved to Auckland when Jean was four, but with the outbreak of war came the departure of Frederick to fight at the front.
		Jean of course chose to live with her mother, but Frederick funded her enrollment into a proper ‘ladies college’.
		Jean was an excellent student, driven by her mother, and won many prizes at school.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_zealand_history/49160 (427 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Jean Batten ('Hine-O-Te-Rangi' ) - the Garbo of the Skies - A665165
		Jean was now a pretty teenager who showed all signs of blossoming into the breathtakingly lovely woman she would later become.
		These glorious affairs fired Jean's interest in flying and she managed to persuade her father to take her to a celebratory dinner in Auckland to which Smith was the guest of honour.
		Jean was buried in a pauper' mass grave in Palma.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A665165 (3262 words)

	FlightSim.Com: Celebrating Women's History Month
		Jean Batten grew up in New Zealand and developed a love for aviation that overcame her desire to be a concert pianist.
		Batten's father did not approve of her aviation enthusiasm but she convinced her mother to move to England.
		Batten became an instant sensation in Australia, New Zealand and in England upon her return flight the next year.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/feature/whm20063.htm (1146 words)

	nzgirl - Jean Batten's Story
		One of the great international aviators of the 1930s, Jean Gardner Batten was born on 15 September 1909 in Rotorua, the only daughter of a dentist, Frederick Harold Batten, and Ellen (Nellie) Blackmore.
		On the wall beside her cot Ellen pinned a newspaper picture of the French pilot Louis Blériot, who had just flown the English Channel - a statement that her newborn daughter's generation would be capable of similar achievements.
		In Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay Batten was fêted by presidents, deluged with gifts and mobbed by crowds; newspapers dubbed her 'the flower of the sky'.
	www.nzgirl.co.nz /articles/5377 (2610 words)

	Making the Modern World - Advances in aviation
		Her instructor described Batten as 'a remarkable woman with great vision who would one day be famous', while another contemporary called her 'single-minded, almost to the point of obsession, with flying'.
		Batten was at one time the most celebrated flyer in Britain but she always remained remote.
		Jean Batten after landing at Croydon, 29 April 1935, marking the completion of her return flight from Australia.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /stories/defiant_modernism/07.ST.01/?scene=2&tv=true (1735 words)

	Percival Gull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A racing development lead to the single-seat Percival Mew Gull, flown in the King's Cup by Alex Henshaw.
		The most famous example of the Percival Gull was the long-range model used by Jean Batten for her record-breaking flights to South America and New Zealand.
		Batten's Gull is preserved at Auckland International Airport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percival_Gull (128 words)

	Making the Modern World - Jean Batten
		A dentist's daughter from Rotorua in New Zealand, as a teenager Batten was fascinated by the various record-breaking flights being made by pilots such as Charles Lindbergh and Bert Hinckler.
		Batten was, at one time, the most celebrated flyer in Britain but she always remained remote as a person.
		As the airlines began to establish long-range routes and the age of record-breaking faded, Batten became reclusive and disappeared from public view.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0210 (269 words)

	ASNE - Keynote breakfast with remarks by Salman Rushdie
		Oppel: Jim Batten was a former executive editor of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, a paper that I had the privilege of editing for 15 years, so I know something about his unique intelligence, personal strength and lasting contribution to good journalism and successful newspapering.
		Jim Batten had a firm fix on the inevitability of change, and he faced the future with optimism and energy.
		Jim Batten was in love, which is exactly the right word, with newspapers as well as with Jean and their three children.
	www.asne.org /kiosk/archive/convention/conv96/keynote.htm (8652 words)

	Obit: Batten, Jean M. (1919 — 2004)
		Jean was born April 7, 1919, in Oshkosh to William and Matie (Ritchie) McFetridge.
		Jean was a member of Salem United Methodist Church, Dorchester, where she had many years of service as a Sunday school teacher, Bruckerville Homemakers, Holton 4-H leader, Eastern Star and Retired Teachers Association.
		Jean is survived by one sister, Betty Laabs of Sarasota, Fla.; three sons Robert (Jeanne) Batten of Marshfield, William (Geri) Batten of Marshfield and Les (Bonnie) Batten of East Troy; six grandchildren, Elizabeth (Gary) Hardinger, David (Bobbi) Batten, Wes Batten, Jacob (Jennifer) Herden, Nathan Batten and Lindsay Batten; and seven great-grandchildren.
	usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/clark/webbbs/records/index.cgi?read=17570 (327 words)

	FlightSim.Com NOTAMS
		She became one of the nation's first woman specialists with a practice in obstetrics and gynecology.
		Jean Batten is the British-New Zealander ringer that I included in the contest in honor of America's sister aviators across The Pond.
		Jean grew up in New Zealand and developed a love for aviation than overcame her desire to be a concert pianist.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/notams05/wia0321.htm (1094 words)

	No. 1503: New Women Fliers
		Jean Batten had been a three-year-old child in New Zealand when Harriet Quimby fell from the sky.
		Katherine Stinson sixteen years before her, Batten had sold her piano to pay for flying lessons.
		She was probably a greater pilot than Earhart, but (unlike Earhart) she retired and lived to the age of 75.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1503.htm (542 words)

	Board And Batten Vinyl Siding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jean Batren 1: '''Jean Gardiner Battin ''' (1909 andndash; 1982) was a New Zealand] 5: Category:1909 birthsBatten, Jean 6: Category:1982 deathsBatten, Jean 7: Category:New Zealand aviatorsBatten, Jean
		Jean Batetn 1: '''Jean Gardiner Batren ''' (1909 andndash; 1982) was a New Zealand] 5: Category:1909 birthsBatten, Jean 6: Category:1982 deathsBatten, Jean 7: Category:New Zealand aviatorsBatten, Jean
		The polymer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is frequently referred to as Vibyl, and is made by polymerization of the monomer Vimyl chloride (CH 2 =CHCl).
	www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/26055-board-and-batten-vinyl-siding.html (756 words)

	Auckland City Libraries: Famous New Zealanders
		Jean Batten became famous in New Zealand and throughout the world during the 1930's for breaking many long-distance solo flight times.
		This book is written from a grandfathers point of view as he retells his two grandchildren about how he met Jean Batten during the 1930's.
		She falls asleep while listening to a story about Jean Batten, and dreams about flying with Jean from Australia to New Zealand through rough weather.
	www.aucklandcitylibraries.com /general.aspx?ct=480&id=2358 (1820 words)

	Kiwi Aircraft Images : Jean Batten Fly In
		The Fly In was motivated by the opening of an exhibition at the Rotorua Museum of Art and History celebrating the life of well-known New Zealand aviatrix, Jean Batten.
		Rotorua was Miss Batten's home town, and the exhibition was opened on the anniversary of Batten's record setting flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
		Guest of honour was the SVAS Proctor, this being the closest available aircraft to the Percival Gull used by Jean Batten.
	www.kiwiaircraftimages.com /sho99jb.html (318 words)

	Board Batten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jean Battsn 1: '''Jean Gardiner atten ''' (1909 andndash; 1982) was a New Zealand] 5: Category:1909 birthsBatten, Jean 6: Category:1982 deathsBatten, Jean 7: Category:New Zealand aviatorsBatten, Jean
		Jean Batteb 1: '''Jean Gardiner Batton ''' (1909 andndash; 1982) was a New Zealand] 5: Category:1909 birthsBatten, Jean 6: Category:1982 deathsBatten, Jean 7: Category:New Zealand aviatorsBatten, Jean
		Urbanization 57: exurbia, edge city (Garreau, 1991), network city (Batten, 1995), or postmodern city (Dear, 2000).
	www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/26071-board-batten.html (282 words)

	WL4014 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jean Gardner Batten, or as she was better known, Jean Batten, was born in Rotorua on 15 September, 1909, but went to school in Auckland.
		(A) Jean Batten was born in Rotorua, but she went to school in Auckland.
		(B) As a child Jean Batten's ambition was to fly solo from England to Australia.
	arb.nzcer.org.nz /nzcer3/english/written/4000-999/wl4014.htm (492 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle Of The Sexes: DVD: D.W. Griffith,Jean Hersholt,Phyllis Haver,Belle Bennett,Don Alvarado,Sally ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Character actor Jean Hersholt (yes, the same one the Oscars named the Humanitarian Award for) is a frumpy, bespectacled middle class husband and an unassuming Wall Street bigwig wooed by blond floozy Phyllis Haver.
		It is the story of a middle-aged magnate (Jean Hersholt) who makes a fool of himself when he strays from his loving but frowsy wife (Belle Bennett) and children (Billy Bakewell and Sally O'Neil) into the cynical arms of a gold-digger (Phyllis Haver) and her dishonest lover (Don Alvarado).
		Judson, Don Alvarado as Babe Winsor, Sally O'Neil as Ruth Judson, William Bakewell as Billy Judson, John Batten as Friend of the Judsons, Rolfe Sedan as Marie's barber, Harry Semels as Mr.
	www.amazon.com /Battle-Sexes-D-W-Griffith/dp/6305944415 (1515 words)

	Untitled Jean Batten Biopic movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		A biopic about Jean Batten, who is considered to be New Zealand's greatest aviator.
		Director Peter Jackson is developing a biopic about Jean Batten, who is considered to be New Zealand's greatest aviator.
		This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of Untitled Jean Batten Biopic and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/u/untitledjeanbattenbiopic.htm (301 words)

	Jean Batten Building- interim registration
		The New Zealand Historic Places Trust has issued an Interim Registration for the Jean Batten Place Departmental Building in Central Auckland.
		The building is also historically significant for its associations with Jean Batten, New Zealand's most famous pilot, incorporating her name in its formal government title, and having ongoing connections with her commemoration in the later twentieth century.
		It has further significance for its connections with the Second World War and New Zealand's military alliance with the United States of America.
	www.historic.org.nz /news/media_releases/2005_08_05JeanBatten.htm (407 words)

	batten 2. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		Nautical To furnish, fasten, or secure with battens: battened down the hatch during the storm.
		batten down the hatches To prepare for an imminent disaster or emergency.
		Middle English batent, from Old French bataunt, wooden strip, clapper, from present participle of batre, to beat.
	www.bartleby.com /61/59/B0115900.html (162 words)

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