Jean Batten

This week for Inqry we had to make a rap,speech or a information report Angari,Mele,Savelina and I.We picked speech it was about Jean Batten.We also coloured the text so we know what our line was Angari was bule,Mele was pink,Savelina was red and I was yellow.

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Jean Batten
Jean Gardner Batten was born on September 15th 1909 in Rotorua, New Zealand. She was one of the great international aviators in the 1930s. Batten made a number of record breaking solo flights across the world.

In 1913 the Batten’s family moved to Auckland. Jean was enrolled to a girl’s boarding school in Remuera. There, she studied piano and ballet. Although she was a talented pianist she become more interested in becoming a pilot.

She moved to England with her mother in 1929 to join the London Airplane Club.After taking her first solo flight in 1930 she earned a private pilot’s license in 1932. People knew that Batten would become so strong in her career of a pilot.

Jean Batten made her first major flight from England to Australia in 1934 and even managed to beat Amy Johnson’s record.She flew back and became the first woman to make a return flight.She flew 16,900 kilometers 10,500 milimeters in 14 days 22 hours and 30 minutes Jean Batten Breck Amy Johnson’s record by over four days.Jean died November 22 1982 in Spain she died from a Animal attacks.