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Article: THE FLYING PRAM; It looks like a set of bookshelves on top of a baby's buggy and the engine's 100 years old. But who cares about elf 'n' safety? Our very own Biggles climbs into a replica of Britain's first plane; HOW I SEE IT.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Byline: by Robert Hardman
JUDY LEDEN MBE has flown more strange contraptions than the entire cast of Thunderbirds.
She has taken a hangglider to the fringes of space, and holds four world aviation records.
Today, though, she is struggling -- in vain -- to get six inches off the Tarmac in Formby, Merseyside.
But even Judy admits that it would be a tall order in this aircraft. And she has nothing but admiration for the eccentric pioneer who actually managed to get this thing airborne 100 years ago, becoming the first Brit to fly a British plane.
But then Alliott Verdon Roe, a founding father of flight, did not have to contend ...