53-year-old British woman flew 13000-mile in 1942 bi-plane from Farnborough to Sydney

#TraceyCurtisTaylor #AmyJohnson #Sydney #Farnborough Age is no problem for 53-year-old Tracey Curtis-Taylor, a British adventurer, who flew 13,000-miles in a 1942 bi-plane from Farnborough to Sydney - it was a solo flight in a vintage open-cockpit biplane. She calls herself 'Bird in a biplane' and had set off from Farnborough in October last year.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 9 January 2016.

In the course of her journey, she has crossed 23 countries and made 50 refueling stops in her 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis aircraft. Her route was over Europe and the Mediterranean to Jordan, over the Arabian desert, across the Gulf of Oman to Pakistan, India and across Asia before reaching Australia.
Once in Australia, she stopped at Darwin, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, the famous Uluru in the Northern Territory and Broken Hill in New South Wales and finally Sydney airport.
Ms Curtis-Taylor was following the path taken by of Amy Johnson, the British pilot who became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930.

(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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