Jean Batten - The will to achieve..

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.?Jean?Batten

Jane Gardner Batten?CBE?OSC?(15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982), commonly known as?Jean Batten, was a New Zealand?aviator, making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She is notable for completing the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.

Batten's mother encouraged her in activities, considered to be masculine, taking her to?Kohimarama?in Auckland, to observe the flying boats of the flight school there. According to Batten's unpublished memoirs, these visits inspired her to pursue flying.

In May 1927, Jean Batten read of?Charles Lindbergh's exploit in flying non-stop across the Atlantic.?This stirred her childhood interest in aviation, which was further agitated in 1928 when the Australian pilot?Charles Kingsford Smith?flew from Australia to New Zealand in his?Southern Cross?Fokker F.VII?aircraft.

Major flights

• 8 May to 23 May 1934 – England–Australia (solo women's record) 16,900 kilometres (10,500?mi) in 14 days 22 hours 30 minutes, breaking?Amy Johnson's record by over four days.
• 8 April to 29 April 1935 – Australia–England (solo women's record) in 17 days 16 hours 15 minutes. First woman ever to make a return flight.
• 11 November to 13 November 1935 – England–Brazil: 8,000?km (5,000?mi) in 61 hours 15 minutes, setting a world record for any type of aeroplane. Also fastest crossing South Atlantic Ocean, 13 hours 15 minutes, and first woman to make an England–South America flight.
• 5 October to 16 October 1936 – England–New Zealand 22,891?km (14,224?mi) in 11 days 45 minutes, including two days 12 hours in Sydney. World record for any type.
• 19 October to 24 October 1937 – Australia–England in 5 days 18 hours 15 minutes, giving her solo records simultaneously in both directions. Her last long-distance flight.

Jean Batten is considered to be New Zealand's most notable aviator and a superior pilot compared to her contemporaries?Amy Johnson?and?Amelia Earhart, particularly with respect to her navigation.

It seems to be a given?that because of New Zealand's distance from the rest of the world we are a nation of travelers and so strive to compete. Jean Batten is a further?example of this drive to achieve.

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