Tracey curtis-taylor biography

Curtis-Taylor was.!

Born in Lincolnshire, Tracey Curtis-Taylor was raised for eight years in the wilds of British Columbia with her three siblings before returning to England to.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a British aviator who has organised and piloted multiple flight expeditions with historic aircraft across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and America.

Curtis-Taylor was.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire in , but raised in the wilds of British Columbia, with her three siblings.

Tracey Curtis-Taylor is a pioneering pilot with an inspired sense of adventure.

Q & A with Tracey Curtis Taylor

In 1928, a record was broken when Lady Mary Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. 85 years later, ‘Bird in a biplane’, adventurer and aviator Tracey Curtis Taylor, set out in a vintage Boeing Stearman to recreate that very same journey.

Her inspirational eight-and-a-half week, 10,000 mile journey was turned into an hour long documentary; ‘The Lady Who Flew Africa- the Aviatrix’. We caught up with Tracey to find out the highs and lows of her journey and the inspiration behind her decision to undertake this courageous adventure.

What first drew you into the world of aviation?

My first impressions of aviation were through film and literature.

I adored ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’ and have seen it at least a dozen times. When I was eleven I also read the ‘Flambards’ trilogy which takes place before and during the First World War. One of the protagonists was besotted with flight and is killed in a