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	Jim Mollison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim continued his record-breaking attempts and in August 18th, 1932 was the first pilot to perform an East-to-West solo trans-Atlantic flight from Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland to Pennfield, New Brunswick, Canada.
		The Mollisons' marriage became strained by the effects of being rivals for the same aviation records, and also because Jim had a drinking problem, and they were divorced in 1938.
		Jim Mollison later settled in London and ran a public house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Mollison (370 words)

	Jim Mollison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		James Allan ("Jim") Mollison (1905-1959) was a famous (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish pioneer (An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets) airplane pilot.
		Born April 19, 1905 in (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow, Mollison was to set many records during the rapid development of (The aggregation of a country's military aircraft) aviation in the 1930s.
		Jim Mollison later settled in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London and ran a public house.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jim_mollison.htm (317 words)

	Wonderful Amy - Amy Johnson Exhibition - Aerial Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amy had met Jim Mollison, another long-distance flier, when he was the co-pilot of an airliner taking her from Brisbane to Sydney.
		Jim and Amy flew to the USA together in 1933 and took part in the England-Australia air race the following year.
		However, Jim lived up to his reputation for drinking and womanising: the couple separated in 1936 and were divorced two years later.
	rafmuseum.org.uk /cosford/exhibitions/amy_johnson/aerial_romance.cfm (104 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In July 1932 she married Jim Mollison, who was also a long distance pilot who shared many of Amy's drives and ambitions.
		It was exceedingly hard for her to find serious work in the aviation world, once her marriage to Jim finally ended in 1939.
		Large organisations saw Amy as a publicity seeker likely to damage their reputations, struggling smaller companies; and there were many of these at this point in aviation history; sought to take advantage of her fame.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/amyjohnson2.html (617 words)

	British Civil Aviation in 1932
		Jim Mollison, piloting a de Havilland Puss Moth, makes a solo flight from Lympne in Kent to Cape Town in South Africa in 4 days 17 hours 30 minutes.
		Amy had met Jim Mollison, another long-distance flier, when he was the co-pilot of an airliner taking her from Brisbane to Sydney and the couple had announced their engagement in May.
		Jim Mollison completes the first solo east to west flight of the North Atlantic, flying a de Havilland DH80A Puss Moth (G-ABXY).
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_civil/1932.html (285 words)

	CPI: Portal User Group Meeting
		Jim Rutushni introduced himself to the Portal User Group and gave an overview of his personal work background and talked about PMG's new location in DOIT’s organizational structure.
		Then Jim voiced a special Thank You to the DOIT Operations Staff for their behind the lines support and keeping all the servers up and running that host the PORTAL, Ultra Seek, WEB Trends and other IIS WEB hosted sites.
		Craig Mollison gave an overview of the status of WebTrends and informed the Portal User Group that WebTrends are now working for Portal sites and to contact him if requesting WebTrends report for their site.
	www.ct.gov /cpi/cwp/view.asp?Q=277466&A=1768 (431 words)

	Amy Johnson
		In 1932, she married the famous British pilot Jim Mollison, who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs.
		The Mollisons also flew nonstop in record time to India in 1934 in a De Havilland Comet in the England to Australia air race.
		During World War II, she worked as a ferry pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an Airspeed Oxford to RAF Kidlington near Oxford, she went missing.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amy_johnson.html (405 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - Amy Johnson
		One of these was Jim Mollison who, in 1931, eclipsed both Hinkler and Amy herself by flying from Australia to Britain in nine days.
		In 1933 she and Mollison attempted a joint non-stop flight from South Wales to New York, but ran out of fuel and crash-landed in Connecticut, injuring both of them.
		The disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937 during an attempted round-the-world flight, discouraged Amy from further record-breaking attempts, which were, in any case, losing their popular appeal as flying became more routine.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/amy_johnson.html (976 words)

	1932 in aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 24-28 - Jim Mollison sets a new speed record between the United Kingdom and Cape Town, taking 4 days 17 hours in a de Havilland Puss Moth
		August 18-19 - Jim Mollison makes the first solo East-to-West crossing of the Atlantic, flying a de Havilland Puss Moth from Dublin to New Brunswick
		November 14-18 - Amy Johnson breaks the UK-Cape Town speed record, shaving 11 hours off Mollison's record in March.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1932_in_aviation (612 words)

	How they fared
		Amy Mollison went on to set more records and became even more popular.
		In 1935 she and Jim separated for good.
		When the war broke out Amy joined the air transport auxiliary, and was delivering an Airspeed Oxford in January of 1941 when she went down into the Thames estuary near a British destroyer.
	www.pjcomputing.flyer.co.uk /comet/fared.html (775 words)

	Pioneers of the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jim Mollison was one of Britians leading fliers.
		He made the first solo flight across the Atlantic from Europe to America and his wife broke his record flight from England to Cape Town and flew back.
		Jim then flew from England to Brazil by way of Africa in 3 days and 10 hours.
	goodies.freeservers.com /airpioneers.html (808 words)

	Amy Johnson: Pioneer Aviator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She and Jim Mollison met again in March 1932 and married the following July.
		Jim was a playboy and a heavy drinker.
		They tried to keep their careers (and marriage) going with joint flights and solo endeavours, but Jim's infidelities, absences, and too much press drove the couple apart.
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blamyjohnson/index3.html (1090 words)

	Amy Johnson Papers
		She continued making record flights, including a failed attempt to Peking in 1931 and with Jack Humphries as a copilot set a speed record from London to Tokyo in ten days.
		In 1932 she married Jim Mollison, who was a leading British flyer and had set numerous records of his own.
		Falconer-Stewart's 1941 marriage certificate and a fan request for Jim Mollison's autograph.
	www.libraries.wright.edu /staff/dunbar/arch/ms177.old.htm (726 words)

	Board of Regents Approves Agreement with Capital University Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jim Mollison, CUC Board Chairman, and Thompson praised the state higher education system.
		Mollison added, "The economic future of the City of Pierre and the future of many of its citizens depends on the continued availability of higher levels of education, such as offered through CUC.
		The new contract with the Board of Regents is a vote of confidence to all parties involved.
	www.ris.sdbor.edu /publications/PressReleases/pr081597.htm (603 words)

	Transit - The Astrologers Newsletter
		It has since come to light that she may have been the victim of "friendly fire".
		She had been briefly married to another popular, record breaking aviator of the 1930's, Jim Mollison.
		JIM MOLLISON 19 April 1905; Glasgow (55N53 4W15); 2:45 pm (14:45) GMT Paul Wright from birth certificate.
	www.astrologer.com /aanet/pub/transit/sep2003/data.htm (467 words)

	Articles - Amy Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In July 1932, she set a solo record for the flight from London, England to Cape Town, South Africa in a Puss Moth, breaking her new husband's record.
		The Mollisons also flew in record time from England to India in 1934 in a De Havilland Comet as part of the England to Australia MacRobertson Air Race.
		They were forced to retire from this race however, due to engine trouble at Allahabad.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Amy_Johnson (513 words)

	Influential Women of the 20th Century - Amy Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amy flew on to Brisbane to continue her celebrations, but close to landing she crashed her plane.
		It was because of this incident that she met her future husband, Jim Mollison, another flyer, who she married in 1932.
		The marriage did not last long, partly because Amy was more accomplished at flying than her husband and partly because he was a womaniser with a drink problem and couldn't cope with her success.
	www.newman.ac.uk /Students_Websites/~A.J.Dyer/johnson.html (529 words)

	Amy Johnson: Pioneer Airwoman
		In May, 1936, she set a record from England to Capetown, solo, in a Percival Gull, a flight to retrieve her 1932 record.
		With her husband, Jim Mollison, she also flew in a DH Dragon nonstop from Pendine Sands, South Wales, to the United States in 1933.
		They also flew nonstop in record time to India in 1934 in a DH Comet in the England to Australia air race.
	www.ninety-nines.org /johnson.html (395 words)

	Scottish Flotsam from the Hebrides Dates and Happenings of August
		Scots aviator Jim Mollison made the first west-bound solo crossing of the Atlantic,
		James Wilson, a lawyer born in Fife and a signatory to the American Declaration of Independence died.
		Source - Scotching the Myths by Jim Hewiston can be found in the History Book Section of Scottish Radiance.
	www.scottishradiance.com /flotsam/flotsam9908.htm (507 words)

	Captain Bill Lancaster: Lost in the Sahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the early 1930s this was the most challenged route among British pilots.
		Amy Johnson Mollison had only recently taken the record from her husband Jim Mollison in a total elapsed time of four days, six hours and 54 minutes.
		Its cruising speed was about 10 mph slower than that of Amy Mollison's De Havilland Puss Moth.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/blbill_lancaster/index1.html (746 words)

	Earth Resource Mapping supports Journey’s Into Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Earth Resource Mapping’s Internet serving technology, Image Web Server, was chosen as the application to serve the high-resolution images because of its speed and Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) compression format.
		Jim Mollison, Remote Sensing Product Manager at ACRES said,”The interactive touch screen will allow Museum visitors to zoom and pan around a detailed satellite image mosaic of Australia at 25 metre resolution.
		The imagery will also be geo-linked to a range of different scaled raster maps.
	www.ermapper.com /company/news_view.aspx?PRESS_RELEASE_ID=261 (329 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Wings and the Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anna Neagle portrays Amy, whose fame in the 1930s is such that songs are written about her and a worldwide fan club is organized.
		Johnson's fame exacts a toll on her marriage to pilot Jim Mollison (Robert Newton), a daredevil in his own right who chafes at being overshadowed by his wife (the film is careful not cast Mollison in an envious light).
		The film ends with Amy's death while transporting a fighter plane from a defense factory to an RAF field, a tragedy which gives producer/director Herbert Wilcox ample opportunities to wave the Union Jack.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/79899/plot.jhtml (217 words)

	"Amy" - Original Amy Johnson Sheet Music. 1930 (Chris Balm Early Aviation & Motoring Items)
		She later set other records from England to Japan and England to Cape Town.
		In 1932 she married the pilot, Captain Jim Mollison and together they attempted more record flights.
		Amy Johnson died in 1941 while working for the Air Transport Auxiliary Service, drowning after baling out of an Airspeed Oxford aircraft into the Thames estuary.
	www.cjbalm.com /auto-aero/aitem101.htm (199 words)

	Recommended Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And if you're going to spend thousands for land, spend an extra hundred for Bill Mollison's Permaculture, a Designer's Manual, also published as Permaculture, a Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future.
		His scientific books are almost impossible to find, but you can find summaries here and there on the internet, or look at Jim DeMeo's The Orgone Accumulator Handbook.
		A great new book on fermented foods is Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz.
	ranprieur.com /misc/recreading.html (2206 words)

	My Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jim Mollison and Laura Schoen Carbonneau during a meeting of supporters for Pierre's city reorganization plan Wednesday.
		He feels an administrator would also be better able to make informed recommendations to the mayor and commissioners.
		He says reorganizing city government is a move that is long overdue and would make the management of Pierre’s city business a more efficient process.
	www.dakotaradiogroup.com /mydailynews/MDNThursdayMarch_17.htm (3733 words)

	A Tribute to Actor Robert Newton (1905-1956)
		Ar, Jim, you're the spit 'n' image o' me when I was your age.
		Jim Mollison (serving dinner to his date, Amy Johnson): "D'you like an olive?"
		Jim: "Well, why don't you marry me and find out?"
	www.mooncove.com /newton/lines.htm (1681 words)

	EDI - EDEN - EDEN Book List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mollison, Bill, Permaculture: A Practical Guide for a Sustainable Future, Permaculture Drylands, Tucson, AZ, 1992
		The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, 1994
		Wilson, Jim, Landscaping with Wildflowers: An Environmental Approach to Gardening, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1992
	www.ecodesign.org /edi/eden/books.html (3942 words)

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