My b-in-laws mother was one {Peggy Templeton}and passed away late last year, unfortunately she wasnt to coherent in her latter years but did occasionaly come out with stories, i would like to try and find out more if there are any books/sites on the subject.
One story she told was when staying at a hotel in the London in the sixties she got chatting to a Pan Am crew who were regalling stories of flying, she piped up that she had done a bit,to which the crew said "Oh right really and what types have you flown"
She then popped out her pilots licence{which she always carried around in even in her later years and did show me}which was a little faded brown booklet with something like an issue number of 13 on it, issued sometime in the 20s, gave it to the crew who whose jaws dropped and then began to reel off the types she had flown.
She had them enthralled for hours.
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