British fly 21 000 kilometers solo

British fly 21 000 kilometers solo

World January 9, 2016 14:28

- Three months only in the air, in the open cockpit of a biplane in 1942; the dream of a 53-year-old British woman came out to fly solo from England to Australia.


         In October Tracey Curtis Taylor began her journey in Farnborough near London. 21. Around 000 kilometers further and fifty tank tops she landed Saturday with the Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis in Sidney.,, The end of a huge adventure, '' wrote the pilot on Facebook.
Curtis Taylor follows in the footsteps of flight pioneer Amy Johnson, who in 1930 as the first woman solo from the UK flew to Australia. In 2013 she was already almost 13 000 kilometers from Cape Town in South Africa flown to England, following Mary Heath in 1928.

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