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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: M Spencer on August 24, 2015, 01:04:18 AM

Title: Perks of the Job.
Post by: M Spencer on August 24, 2015, 01:04:18 AM

Thought might be of a bit of intrest , as its the U.S. Consuls Secratary !

(http://www.mybackoffice.ch/modellbau/images/Originalbilder/Spitfire/spit_pr.xi_n74138_l.curtis_29-08-48_300.jpg)

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7339/10746455956_7733156acc_o.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/Mark12/Album%204/11-PL983-11-001.jpg)

Its a Mk XI Spitfire . P.R. , still exists , was rotting at Old Warden for years .
(http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16038&stc=1&d=1076969983)
 >:( apparently met its demise in 2001 .  >:(

https://assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk/media/54230438e5274a1314000be3/Vickers-Supermarine_Spitfire_PR_XI__G-PRXI_05-03.pdf

one on a Blenhiem I think , was caused by something like a wrong spring in the carburator .
Thousands of parts and every one has to be 100 % + spot on , thereabouts .
(http://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16020&stc=1&d=1076965354)

(https://solentaviatrix.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ata-hamble-ferry-pool-closure.jpg)

a bunch of Spitfire pilots . Theyre not wearing skirts and theyre not Scotsman . at least some of them arnt . or is that Scotswoman .  :-\

Title: Re: Perks of the Job.
Post by: qaz049 on August 24, 2015, 01:41:33 AM

Mmm, an effeminate looking lot. Some of those chaps have breasts :-)

Title: Re: Perks of the Job.
Post by: John Park on August 24, 2015, 04:30:24 AM

Folks:
The ladies were ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) ferry pilots: the lady in the Spitfire's cockpit in the main photo looks exactly like a noted British aviatrix called Lettice Curtis, herself an ATA pilot and probably included in the group photo though I can't pick her out.  They flew every type there was - Hawker Tempests, Avro Lancasters, Short Sunderlands even, and in all weathers.  An intrepid bunch!

Regards
John

Title: Re: Perks of the Job.
Post by: John Park on August 24, 2015, 08:33:35 AM

Folks:
Further to my above, the big colour photo does indeed show Lettice Curtis at the 1948 Lympne air races, preparing to fly the American air attache's Spitfire XI, in which I believe she did rather well (I think she beat John Cunningham's De Havilland Vampire on handicap).  She died in 2014 at the grand old age of 99.

Regards
John