As a member of the LAA I feel quite insulted by the playing of the gender card, particularly in an attempt to reverse the LAA decision to revoke her award. When I watched the TV film of her flight from Cape Town I felt nothing but admiration for her, OK plus a little envy, and it never occurred to me that this was special because she was a woman. She seems to have kept her head down for the last couple of years and if, prior to that, she had admitted to being carried away by the
PR machine she now would probably be in a better position to use her considerable skills to evangelise for aviation and women in particular. However, this article has just poked the sleeping beast and revealed an arrogance towards LAA members and miltary types in particular which I find totally unacceptable.
I wonder if those with military connections will be similarly insulted by this article.