We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Polly Vacher for our new Freedom Video Magazine.
Her first Wings Around the World Challenge in aid of the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled was in January-May 2001 when she made a solo eastbound circumnavigation of the world in her single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee Dakota G-FRGN, the smallest aircraft flown solo by a woman around the world via Australia, including a 16-hour segment from Hawaii to California.
On 6 May 2003 she set out from Birmingham International Airport on a Voyage to the Ice for the same charity, flying over the North Pole, Antarctica and all seven continents, returning on 27 April 2004, becoming the first solo woman flyer over the polar regions.
On May 21st 2007 she set off on her latest venture, the Wings Around Britain Challenge in which Polly is intending to land at all 206 recognised airfields in the country.
Each year scholarships are given to people with disabilities to learn to fly’ or better still ‘If you have a disability and would like to learn to fly – go to www.toreachforthesky.org.uk and apply.
