Polly soars into the record books again
27/07/07 13:01
BDFA member & world record breaking aviator Polly
Vacher has just completed another voyage to help
raise awareness of aviation for the disabled. This
time it was a record breaking flight around the UK
landing at all of the airfields in the Jeppesen VFR
Manual, between 21 May and 31 July 2007. 221
Airfields visited, 158. Flying hours, 19,000.
Nautical miles, 163 passengers, 96 disabled
passengers.
Picture
shows Polly at the end of her Wings around Britain
flight
Polly's last trip was around the world from 6th May
2003 to 27th April 2004 and she flew into the record
books:-
- First woman to fly solo over the North
Pole in a single engine aircraft
- First woman to fly
solo in Antarctica in a single engine aircraft
-
First person to fly solo around the world landing on
all seven continents
- 60,000 nautical miles, 357
days