By an amazing coincidence I met this wonderful 80 year old lady yesterday!
I'd been asked to look at some memorabilia in her late husband's study; He was Robert Frederick "Bob" Jones (26/4/33 to 19/11/17) Bob flew 1-11s out of Birmingham and was also connected with Don Everall Aviation.
Pat is full of life with a fantastic memory. She showed me the letters about her appointment as an Air Hostess and then produced her log book. Time didn't permit a full investigation but I noticed flights in the Marathons as well as DC3s.
Palma via tech stop at Toulouse took nearly 7 hours
I'll be going back to see her soon and will try to glean some more stories from her. The bar box and her head hitting a Dak's ceiling was one!
BTW Bob's office included a number of display cases in which were dozens of high quality "Airfix" kits. OK some were probably other manufacturers but all had been finish what to my eye was a professional standard.