Tracey Curtis-Taylor, Aviatrix

[Story]

Tracey Curtis-Taylor is recreating the historic open-cockpit flight first undertaken 85 years ago by the oft-forgotten aviation pioneer Lady Mary Heath.

Lady Heath was the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial flying license and parachute from a plane. The 31-year-old – nicknamed ‘Lady Icarus’ - made headlines around the world when she completed the 7,000 mile route in 1928, in a then record-breaking three months.

Now, as reported by Telegraph Wonder Women last month, Ms Curtis-Taylor is set to do the same.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/wo...g-Lady-Mary-Heaths-historic-1920s-flight.html

 

[Story]

Annette Porter, producer of the documentary following Tracey Curtis-Taylor on her epic flight from Cape Town to Goodwood in England, reports that with the exception of Libya, the intrepid aviatrix has been able to faithfully follow the flight path of Mary Heath.


http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33003&catid=74&Itemid=30

 

[Story]

In a little less than two weeks – all being well – Tracey Curtis-Taylor will land a plane in Goodwood, West Sussex, having piloted it from Cape Town. Nothing remarkable about that, you might think. But Curtis-Taylor's journey is rather special: she's flying solo in a 1930s-style Boeing Stearman biplane, which goes at a top speed of merely 95mph – good job really, because its open cockpit means she gets blasted and buffeted by the elements. This 7,000-mile journey from South Africa to the UK will take around six weeks; she will hopefully land on 18 December.

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel...ritains-intrepid-female-aviators-8985285.html

 

[Aristaeus]

Lady Mary Heath with her Avro Avian biplane.

 

[Captain Nemo]

That looks like it would be a great adventure. I wish I had the time and money to do something like that!