Sally Smith is a journalist and light hearted, entertaining writer who has worked for various publications and media including the Daily Mail and BBC News in England and ABC News in Australia. She was named Business Writer of the Year, has a Churchill Fellowship and is an established author with books published by Pelham Books, Rigby Books and The History Press. She has spent a lifetime 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. She now lives in south west Somerset.