Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
Just thinking on this whole outreach thing. I do a bit of outreach - I just consider it part of what I do. I know people who do huge amounts of it (my friend Lucy Rogers, who as of this evening is the new presenter on Robot Wars is an excellent, but by no means isolated example. Carol Vorderperson with the Air Cadets is doing a lot also.)
This sort of outreach usually means numerous talks at festivals, school visits, hours on end on stands doing simple experiments with children that helps them develop and understanding and passion about science / aviation / mathsandstuff. And, usually, endless dull-but-essential committee meetings, evenings preparing material, and so-on.
We know about a handful of high profile orchestrated visits mentioned on Wikipedia. But what real time consuming activity has La TCT really done in this regard?
G
It pretty obvious she loves flying, classic aircraft in particular, you need money to do that and unless she's personaly wealthy or has a sugar daddy (granddaddy) she has to go thru the motions of what her sponsors expect of her in return for writing the cheques. So she is probably going to do the absolute minimum amount of meeting and greeting the great unwashed masses possible, just enough to get her ticket punched by her paymasters, then it's back in the plane for some fun.