British female bi-plane pilot to land in Pakistan today
The British aviator is embarking on a 13,000-mile solo flight in a vintage open cockpit biplane.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - An adventurous British aviatrix who embarked on a 13,000-mile solo flight from Britain to Australia in a vintage open cockpit bi-plane will reach Pakistan today (Monday), Dunya News reported.
Self-styled "Bird in a Bi-Plane" Tracey Curtis-Taylor, 53, will land at Gwadar aiport where Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officials will receive her.
Tracey set off in her 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis aircraft from Farnborough, Hampshire on October 1st and will fly across 23 countries before finally arriving in Sydney in early 2016.
She will follow in the slipstream of Amy Johnson, the pioneering British aviator who became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930.
Tracey hopes to recreate the essence of Johnson’s era of flying, with an open cockpit, stick and rudder flying with basic period instruments and a short range between landing points. But she is not unfamiliar with this form of flying.
In 2013, she flew 8,000-miles solo from Cape Town to Goodwood, West Sussex, to recreate the 1928 flight of Lady Mary Heath.
