Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:27 am
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PeteSpencer wrote:..
Every mil rotary craft I've crawled over in the last few years has had a female pilot...
[as I may have posted before .. ]
ISTR a Rally at which the YES stand was near the BWPA stand. An elderly gentleman with military bearing, wearing a RAFA tie, was looking at t-shirts bearing an image of a young lady wearing a flight jacket, leather helmet and goggles, and standing in front of a Stearman. The image was captioned "A woman's place is in the cockpit". An eager BWPA rep came up to talk to him. He said "I was thinking of buying one for my granddaughter." The rep beamed, and said something like "yes, she should know that girls, too, can be pilots." "Yes," he replied, "she flies Chinooks."
[Osprey at Addenbrooke's on BBC News website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... e-56847090
"A hospital's helipad has temporarily closed after it was badly damaged by the draught from a departing aircraft.
The structure at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge was thrown into the air as the USAF CV22 Osprey took off on Wednesday. Its crew had been taking part in medical transfer training.
The East Anglian and Magpas air ambulances have been diverted to nearby Cambridge City Airport while repairs take place.
A hospital spokeswoman said: "Patients are then transferred to the hospital in road ambulances with critical care staff on board, meaning we can continue to see and treat them as normal." "]
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(mere guide at) Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire Airport
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http://www.jetagemuseum.org/
TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction ... gland.html