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Jean Batten was born in Rotorua and became the best known New Zealander of the 1930s internationally by making a number of record breaking solo flights across the world. Jean Battens ambition to learn to fly was in the late 1920’s. Her Mother who she had a great relationship with encouraged her with this. In 1929 Jean’s mother took her on a holiday to Sydney and arranged her to fly with Australian Aviator Charles Kingsford Smith.
A year later Jean sailed to England with her Mother and began to learn to fly at the London aeroplane club. By December she got her A licence and had her eye on breaking the women's record from a flight from England to Australia. Jean borrowed money from a young New Zealand Pilot who wanted to marry her. After completing her B licence in December 1932 she had nothing to do with him. After two failed attempts to fly from England to Australia in 1933 she successfully completed a return journey in May 1934.
Jean soon started planning new record breaking flights. In 1935 she made her flight from West Africa to Brazil, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the South Atlantic. Jean Batten Landed in Auckland on the 16th of October 1936 she'd successfully completed the first ever direct flight from England to New Zealand. Although Jean broke world flying records several times this was the longest of all of her journeys.
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