Flying around the world with Carol Vorderman



WAUGHgroup are pleased to be appointed supplier of clothing and other promotional goods to Carol Vorderman.


Fresh from conquering the jungle Carol Vorderman is now planning to fly solo around the world.

The 56-year-old is hoping to become the ninth woman to fly solo around the globe this summer after abandoning an earlier attempt at the feat in the autumn.


The former Countdown star obtained her pilot's licence two years ago and will be flying a Diamond DA42 twin-engine propeller plane nicknamed Mildred

She said: 'My life's dream has been to be a pilot. I fought to get to Cambridge University as a comprehensive kid on free school meals in the 1970s.

'I was the first child from my town to get there.


My drive was always because I wanted to be a pilot but the RAF wouldn't train women as pilots back then and we were a poor family so flying lessons were out of the question and my dream was put on hold,' she continued.

'My first flight in my own aircraft was beyond a dream.


 I flew to Cambridge to see my daughter Katie who was reading physics and chemistry there and was a member of the same University Air Squadron that turned me down because I was a girl.


Her journey will see her travel through Europe, across Asia, north to the eastern-most point of Russia, across the Pacific Ocean, the United States and then finally she will make her way back through the icy north towards the United Kingdom.


"In a couple of weeks, I'm flying her to Egypt and back with another pilot so I can start to learn the longer routes. Then I'm flying to America and back. I'm trying to challenge myself constantly."


"It's something I never thought I'd be able to do for a million reasons," she said.

"The scariest pieces of the flight are the over water bits, particularly as you go north over eastern Russia, across the Pacific and the high north into Alaska and so on.


"But there will be places people have never seen and I never dreamed that I'd see, so the scariest bits become the most exciting bits."

American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared during an attempt to cross the Pacific in 1937.


A TV show based on her journey will air on Channel 5, with three shorts filmed exclusively for My5, in autumn. 


Lucy Willis, Channel 5's commissioning editor, said of the undertaking: 'This series demonstrates a previously unseen side to Carol as she embarks on this incredible and inspiring adventure where she'll be tested to her absolute limits. 


'It promises to be an exhilarating hybrid of personal journey, extreme challenge and some incredible travel and it shows us that it's never too late to fulfill your dreams.'


WAUGHgroup will supply badges and clothing branded with her logo, as well as various promotional garments. We have always been fans of Carol and we are just so pleased to play a small role in this once in a generation adventure.

March 2017 - please note this project has now been delayed until 2018.





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