CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov. 4, 2013 – With support from Boeing [NYSE: BA], pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor has taken off on a 7,000-mile (11,000-kilometer) solo journey, in a reconditioned Boeing Stearman open-cockpit biplane, to retrace Lady Mary Heath’s historic 1928 flight between South Africa and the United Kingdom. In this photo, Curtis-Taylor departs Cape Town on Nov. 2 with plans to land in Goodwood, near London, in December.
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Photo credit: Boeing photo
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