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Junior Crew – introducing your Night Flight guides, Ivy and Bert. Two young aviators with sky-high ambitions to understand the mystery of flight, they have spent years watching the animal kingdom’s flying creatures to discover how they move through the air.
Inspired by two real Queensland aviation pioneers, Ivy May Pearce and Bert Hinkler, they invite you to feel, for an evening, what it is like to fly.
A trained concert pianist, Ivy (1914-1998) chose flying lessons over music. An early Australian acrobatic pilot and one of the first in the Southern Hemisphere, Ivy was a fearless daredevil – at 22, she earned the accolade of the fastest woman in the 1938 Brisbane to Adelaide air race.
As a teenager in Bundaberg, Bert (1892-1933) photographed ibis in flight and built his own gliders. A gifted mathematician and inventor, he designed aviation instruments and his own aircraft, the ibis. In 1928 he became the first person to fly solo from England to Australia.
As the sun goes down and the moon rises, Ivy and Bert’s namesakes have come to Roma Street Parkland to discover it’s hidden, after-dark aerial world and learn from its resident night flyers. Launch into wonder as their Night Flight expedition departs nightly from 6.30pm.