British pilot finished "greatest adventure in the world '

Gepubliceerd op 9 januari 2016 om 12:33

The British pilot Tracey Curtis Taylor has her solo journey of 22,000 kilometers of Great Britain finished in Australia.

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This morning she landed with her Boeing Stearman biplane Spirit of Artemis in 1942, after a trip of more than three months in Sydney.

Curtis Taylor began on October 1 in Farnborough, southeast of London, on the trip. They took the same trip off as the British flight pioneer Amy Johnson, who was the first woman in 1930 who just flew over the world. This week it's exactly 75 years since Johnson died. She died in a flying accident in WWII.

The route was made was including through Istanbul, Dubai, New Delhi and Singapore towards the northwest of Australia. Curtis Taylor made a stop about fifty times to refuel.

"Along the way we had to deal with monsoon rains, thunderstorms, turbulence and in the interior of Australia was terribly hot with 45 degrees," said a euphoric Curtis Taylor after her landing.

 
"You fly over beautiful iconic places as the Dead Sea and the Arabian desert. It was the greatest adventure in the world."

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