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“I need a drink. And I need a hairdresser,” said Tracey Curtis-Taylor as she climbed out of her 1942 Boeing Stearman Spirit of Artemis to cheers and applause at Sydney airport on Saturday.The 53-year-old pilot has flown across 23 countries, making 50 refuelling stops, since she set off from Farnborough, Hampshire, southern England, in October.13,000-mile solo flight in a vintage open cockpit biplane following in the slipstream of pioneer Amy Johnson.
The pilot’s mission has been to emulate pioneering British aviator Amy Johnson, who became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia in 1930.Curtis-Taylor’s route has taken her across Europe and the Mediterranean to Jordan, over the Arabian desert, across the Gulf of Oman to Pakistan, India and across Asia.
In 2013, she flew 13,000km/8000miles solo from Cape Town to Goodwood, West Sussex, to recreate the 1928 flight of Lady Mary Heath.