What an interesting contrast between the two speakers at that event.
Capt. Lorraine Taylor talks about her career leading up to and as a British Airways 747 Captain.
‘’I have flown this type for 18 years. I have almost 20,000 flying hours, racked up over 35 years. In my 25 year career with BA, I have also flown the Tristar, and the Classic 747 - both with Flight Engineers. I did an 18 month secondment with Air Lanka in 1991 - at that time I was their first and only female pilot.”
Tracey Curtis-Taylor recounts her epic 9,000-mile solo journey from Capetown to Goodwood in her Stearman, ‘The Spirit of Artemis’.
After eight weeks and 9,825 miles, CurtisTaylor, British-born but raised in Canada, completed her epic adventure in January: a recreation of Lady Heath’s 1928 record-breaking flight from Cape Town to Cairo. The route took her through Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt – before finally touching down at Goodwood in West Sussex