Named after the famous line in Top Gun (‘I feel the need for speed’), Loree Draude’s show looks back on her time flying US Navy jets. One of the first women to fly in combat squadrons in the Persian Gulf, she relives the casual misogyny she had to endure. But Draude is far from bitter; this is an enjoyable tale of emancipation and self-love (sometimes involving high-pressure shower heads) from a woman who has survived a strict Catholic upbringing, a marriage breakdown and post-natal depression.

Since then, she’s written a book and gone through ‘mental fitness’ coaching and brings a twinkly energy to her tightly scripted monologue. A few audience plane nerds are disappointed she doesn’t share more combat stories and are confused by her sassy, body-positive spin on her military memoir. The focus here is personal not political, so don’t expect material on the moral rights or wrongs of US warmongering. But do strap in for a slick one-woman show from the aviator formerly known as ‘Rowdy’.

Assembly Rooms, until 27 August, 1pm.