I wonder how much of a hero this half-truth pilot would have been if there was anyone in the R-44 doing their checklist???
Taxi into a ........ ANYTHING would only be understandable if you had some sort of malfunction! What was wrong with the Stearman??
Set to fly half way around the world, you bloody well should know how to taxi your machine.
And Luther,
And why did you say 'female'?
Maybe cause the papers uses ''woman pilot'', and not just ''the pilot'' in their story.
Fits in with the Russian idiot in the R-22 story!!