Polly Vacher is a British aviator known for long distance solo flights made in the name of raising money for the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled. Born in 1944 in Devon, England, she did not obtain her private pilot license until 50 years later in Australia. Prior to her charity work, she circumnavigated Australia…
In times of war women have always wanted to serve their country and this impulse lead to a sharp rise in the number of women in aviation, just as it did with me. At the onset of World War I, many women pilots attempted to volunteer but were turned down. At the onset of World…
There were plenty of women in aviation after World War II as many had been recruited and trained as pilots in the United States. There were former WASP (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots) pilots who had flown for the Civil War Patrol and pilots who hadn’t flown at all during the war years but who were…
Alan Cassidy was born in Ringmer, Sussex in 1949. He is one of the top aerobatic pilots in all of the United Kingdom. Prior to joining the Royal Air Force in 1970, Cassidy attended Trinity College, Cambridge. While at university, he studied mechanical sciences. Cassidy served in the Royal Air Force for 20 years as…
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