Pilot Recreates England To Australia Flight In Open Cockpit Stearman

Tracey Curtis-Taylor proved basic stick and rudder skills could still get you across the world after completing a 13,000 homage flight for female aviation pioneer Amy Johnson. Tracey's flight, in a 1942 Boeing Stearman, took her across 23 countries and 13,000 miles from England to Australia, an air journey first completed by Amy Johnson in 1930. Curtis-Taylor says that, "Being able to fly an airplane like this at low level half way round the world, you know in some of the most epic terrain on the planet has been beyond anything. My flight is very much a tribute to her. So it is, yeah, celebrating what the pioneers achieved and what women achieve now in aviation as well."