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Prisoners at HMP Hull have constructed a full-scale replica of Amy Johnson’s Gipsy Moth. Part of the prison’s reducing reoffending initiative, Hull-based artist Leonard J Brown, has worked with them to create a full-scale model of the aircraft designed by Geoffrey de Havilland in the 1920's
The model is being displayed in Hull city centre as part of the "Made in Hull" season, it will celebrate the legacy of Amy Johnson, the Hull-born pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930 in a Gipsy Moth named "Jason".
The Science Museum refused a request to display the original aircraft..
http://www.dailymail.co....aircraft-home-city.html
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Inmates at a prison built a plane. What could possibly go wrong?
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Not a lot really as its only a static display model
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