Former AST aviation students include: The Hon Mrs Victor Bruce, the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe; Amy Johnson, holder of records for flying to Australia and Japan, and Sir Alan Cobham, founder of the flying circus and the Cobham Company.
He also wrote the screenplay for the 1932 film comedy Diamond Cut Diamond and the story for the 1942 film about Amy Johnson, They Flew Alone.
Lyndon B. Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Amy Winehouse | Johnson & Johnson | Dwayne Johnson | Amy Grant | Boris Johnson | Johnson | Andrew Johnson | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | Magic Johnson | Judging Amy | Robert Johnson | James Weldon Johnson | Jack Johnson | Amy Poehler | Amy Goodman | Kevin Johnson | Jimmie Johnson | Don Johnson | Randy Johnson | Betsey Johnson | Lionel Johnson | Holly Johnson | Amy Adams | Van Johnson | Molly Johnson | Amy Johnson | Glen Johnson | Gary Johnson |
Special Collections: collections organised by subject of particular interest to the area, including William Wilberforce and Slavery, Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), Whales and Whaling, Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), Fosters & Andrews (organ builders), and Amy Johnson.
In 1941, pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson crashed in the Thames Estuary while on a flight en route to Oxford Airport from Blackpool.
In the 1930s it was the starting point for several long distance record flights, including a solo one to Cape Town by Amy Johnson in 1932, and also ones by her later-to-be husband Jim Mollison.
Alex Henshaw, Jim Mollison, Amy Johnson, Beryl Markham, C.W.A. Scott and others, won races and broke records to South Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand, to name but a few.
Each house is named after a woman or women of note from history: Bronte (red) is named after the Brontë sisters, Curie (yellow) after Marie Curie, Franklin (blue) after Rosalind Franklin and Johnson (green) after Amy Johnson.
His wife Amy Johnson made record flights between England and Cape Town using G-ACAB, "Desert Cloud" in 1932.
Artists such as Christine Weidinger, Michael Devlin, Susan Quittmeyer, Anthony Laciura, Barry McCauley, Stella Zambalis, Linda Zoghby, Amy Johnson, Philip Webb, Hal France and Sylvia McNair have made appearances with major opera companies such as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera and opera houses and festivals of Europe.
The exhibition contains some photographs of famous people including the aviator Amy Johnson, World War I flying ace Wing Commander Ira Jones, and racing drivers Sir Malcolm Campbell and J. G. Parry-Thomas, who both attempted world land speed records at Pendine Sands.