SALISBURY Wings Week has announced that adventurer Tracey Curtis-Taylor will be a vice-patron of the event that is taking place next year.

Ms Curtis-Taylor recently replicated the epic journey undertaken in 1928 by Lady Heath who became the first person to fly solo between Cape Town and London.

“Tracey is an inspiration to anyone with a passion for adventure. She flew single-handed from Cape Town to Goodwood through last winter, arriving just in time for New Year,” said Paul Beaver, the founder of the Wings Week in Salisbury.

“She will be off again next year, just after the Wings Week, to take the same aeroplane, built in 1942, to Australia across Europe, the Middle East and southern Asia.

“She is such a good role-model to all young people keen to make their mark and get flying.”

Ms Curtis-Taylor joins James Holland, the local historian, author and director of the Chalke Valley History Festival, and John Glen MP, who have also agreed to become vice-patrons of Salisbury Wings Week, which was launched last week when a Spitfire and Hurricane flew over the city and circled the cathedral spire.