yeovilliteraryfestival

THIS IS A YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022 EVENT
JOHNSON STUDIO

Sally Smith - Magnificent Women and Flying Machines

For the first time, Magnificent Women and Flying Machines tells the stories of the pioneers who achieved real firsts in various forms of aviation: in ballooning, parachuting, gliding, airships and fixed-wing flight right up to a trip to the space station! Full of entertaining adventure mixed with a wealth of new information, here at last is a proper record of Britain’s wonderful women of the air.

Sally Smith is a journalist and writer who has worked for various publications and media, including the Daily Mail, BBC News and ABC News in Australia. She has spent a lifetime being involved in women’s aviation in all sorts of unconventional ways: she has been a member of both the British parachute and the Australian ballooning team, and was the founder and team leader of the world’s first all-girl parachute display team. She was British women’s freefall (style) parachute champion, second overall female at the World Ballooning Championships and a commercial balloon pilot.

Tickets: £8
Footlights: Discount Applies

A £1 ticket levy is included in all stated ticket prices.

Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.