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Tracy Curtis Taylor flew over Australia's famous URU rock.
China new network January 10, according to the Singapore "Lianhe Zaobao" 10 reported, 53 year old British female pilot Curtis - Taylor alone driving a history of more than 70 years of the double wing aircraft after flying more than 20 thousand kilometers, completed the feat from Britain to Australia.
in order to pay tribute to her idols British pioneer female pilot Amy Johnson (Amy Johnson), she pursued the predecessor's flight route and replicated his creation. Johnson became the first woman ever to fly from Australia to Australia alone in 1930.
in January 9th local time, Sydney, Australia, British female pilot Tracy Curtis Taylor followed the story of the legendary pilot Amy Johnson (Amy Johnson), driving an open cockpit complex wing aircraft for three months and flew from England to Sydney, Australia.
Curtis - Taylor flew to Sydney and said, driving the open cockpit double wing machine to make her "see what she (Johnson) has been going through."
she told the media: "driving this plane to a low altitude, around half the earth, see all the most landmark landscapes, geology, vegetation... This is the best scenery in the world and the best adventure in the world.
Curtis - Taylor drove the Stillman wings made by Boeing during World War II in 1942 last October 1st, starting from Britain's fawler City, flying over Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
her biplane has been repaired in 2012, because it is an open cockpit, so flying is not high and not far away. She flew about 400 kilometers each time, flying at a height of about 300 meters, around 145 kilometers per hour, and flying time from three to five hours. While she was flying, there was another plane carrying 4 staff members behind her to provide intelligence and support.
Curtis - Taylor said that many of the difficulties she encountered in the flight were not in the air, but on the ground, for example, when there was an airport waiting for 7 hours to add oil. After the trip, she flew the passenger aircraft back to England, and the biplane was shipped to Seattle, the United States.