Carol Vorderman to fly round world solo.
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Carol Vorderman to fly round world solo.
Carol Vorderman is planning a round the world solo flight ;
BBC News - Carol Vorderman: 'Why I'm flying solo round the world'
Carol Vorderman is planning to fly around the world solo, following the flight path of doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
The flight, which is 29,000-miles in length, will include overnight stops in Cuba, Mexico, Sudan, Malaysia and Pakistan.
The television presenter, 52, hopes to complete the trip that Earthart never finished - Amelia mysteriously disappeared whilst flying over the Pacific in 1937.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Breakfast, she said, "It's something I've always wanted to do since I was about 12... but back in the day the RAF didn't take women pilots".
I wish her good luck and pleasant WX for her flight. Always found Carol a stunning girl but only just heard that she is a pilot too.
Let's hope that we are able to follow the flight on the internet thingie ;-)
Good luck Carol xxx
p.s. I wonder if she is a member of Pprune ?
BBC News - Carol Vorderman: 'Why I'm flying solo round the world'
Carol Vorderman is planning to fly around the world solo, following the flight path of doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
The flight, which is 29,000-miles in length, will include overnight stops in Cuba, Mexico, Sudan, Malaysia and Pakistan.
The television presenter, 52, hopes to complete the trip that Earthart never finished - Amelia mysteriously disappeared whilst flying over the Pacific in 1937.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live's Breakfast, she said, "It's something I've always wanted to do since I was about 12... but back in the day the RAF didn't take women pilots".
I wish her good luck and pleasant WX for her flight. Always found Carol a stunning girl but only just heard that she is a pilot too.
Let's hope that we are able to follow the flight on the internet thingie ;-)
Good luck Carol xxx
p.s. I wonder if she is a member of Pprune ?
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I think I read recently she is still training for her PPL, though her partner is a Red Arrows pilot so that will no doubt be very helpful, if not only for the planning and logistics of such a long flight which is a far cry from your average QXC.
I believe she is training in a Cirrus, so a glass cockpit with all the automated controls and FIKI is going to make the journey so much more do-able but unless she gets an IR and builds up some considerable experience - I think its very brave, even if she does have a top team behind her (which I presume she will have, and there would no doubt be plenty of people willing to offer a celebrity such help).
I believe she is training in a Cirrus, so a glass cockpit with all the automated controls and FIKI is going to make the journey so much more do-able but unless she gets an IR and builds up some considerable experience - I think its very brave, even if she does have a top team behind her (which I presume she will have, and there would no doubt be plenty of people willing to offer a celebrity such help).
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Go on lass! I wish her all the best, the last time I saw her clambering out of an aircraft I'm sure it was a DA40, although I stand to be corrected as I was concentrating on not knocking over the fuel pumps,seeing her wouldn't have sufficed as an excuse I'm sure!!
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Go on lass! I wish her all the best, the last time I saw her clambering out of an aircraft I'm sure it was a DA40, although I stand to be corrected as I was concentrating on not knocking over the fuel pumps,seeing her wouldn't have sufficed as an excuse I'm sure!!
52? Yeah and the rest; it would mean when I watched her interviewing Reg Turnill in Farnborough Tower in about 1977 she would have been about 16.
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52? Yeah and the rest; it would mean when I watched her interviewing Reg Turnill in Farnborough Tower in about 1977 she would have been about 16.
She was certainly on a Southern TV (programme called 'How' with Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dineage) late 70s/early 80s.
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She was certainly on a Southern TV (programme called 'How' with Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dineage) late 70s/early 80s.
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According to this;
Love is in the air as Carol Vorderman flies to plane show with wingman at her side | Showbiz | News | Daily Express
She does co-own a DA40.
LFB.
Love is in the air as Carol Vorderman flies to plane show with wingman at her side | Showbiz | News | Daily Express
She does co-own a DA40.
LFB.
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I could see it as a very lucrative television series "around the world with Carol V"
She would be made to look as if she was on her own but no doubt surrounded by a flotilla of camera aircraft in front on the sides and behind
Pace
She would be made to look as if she was on her own but no doubt surrounded by a flotilla of camera aircraft in front on the sides and behind
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Considering she has not yet flown solo, its rather an ambitious project!
Not much of an achievement though with a support aircraft following you.