She will play DI Janine Lewis in the Manchester-based drama, juggling a high-flying career with a trying home life.

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After a brief bit flying jets, my career turned to flying spy satellites, then to a remote surveillance site, and finally defending Canada and the United States from Soviet attack at NORAD (command post in the mountain).

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"It's a very gratifying feeling for someone who's devoted their career to test flying like myself and all the other astronauts, " said former Air Force Maj.

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Angela Banks has quit international football because she is afraid flying and wants to concentrate on her Arsenal career.

BBC: England's Banks calls time

In 1995 she took her career into her own hands, flying to New York City, despite little enthusiasm from her agency, Metropolitan, which set her up in a roach-infested brownstone with two struggling German models, one of whom gave up and left.

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