HCAP damage limitation should have clicked in months ago.
Considering the skills of those involved in the organisation the old fashioned 'say nothing and it will go away method' no longer works in a modern internet connected society.
There are wider issues to this debacle such as how the UK royals became involved with this aviation con trick.
The newspapers will have fun with this.
Without a doubt it is easy to connect the Royal Family with Tracey Curtis Taylor and sponsors Boeing Aerospace and Artemis plus all the key players such as the LAA and HCAP. They have been giving her awards for so called solo flights which in fact were with an Austrian airline pilot (who built the aircraft) sitting in the front seat.
As I have illustrated on this thread before there are clear connections to Boeing via Marshalls Aerospace. Robert Marshall is a former partner of Tracey Curtis Taylor and a former director of her company Bird in a Biplane.
Both shared the same home address and were directors of the same company.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/c...filing-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha..._Defence_Group
Marshall Aerospace is one of Boeings biggest UK military clients.
Boeing Honours Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group for Exceptional Performance | Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group
Zara Phillips is the Queens granddaughter and married to Mike Tindall who is a 'Brand Ambassador' for Artemis who are the major sponsors of Tracey Curtis Taylor.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mike-tindall-12771478
The Queens cousin is Prince Michael who along with being a liveryman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilot is also patron of the Light Aircraft Association.
The LAA awarded TCT a navigation award. Later reports uncovered facts that she flew the route from Cape Town to Farnborough with commercial airline pilot Ewald Gritsch in the front seat and with both having ipad navigation aids.
However the LAA have refused to retract the award although now the truth is now known.
The chief exec of the LAA is Steve Slater who is also a liveryman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots.
The patron of the HCAP is Prince Phillip, the Grand Master is Prince Andrew.
Tracey Curtis Taylor has achieved very public support from Prince Michael (as displayed in previous pictures I have posted here) which coincides with Robert Marshall resigning from Bird In A Biplane Ltd in 2013.
However it is always worth posting another picture you may have missed.
Here is TCT with Prince Michael at Brooklands
On the 3rd of August 2014 Peter Burton who was operating our Radio Station GB1BM, was surprised to see Lord Trefgarne arrive with HRH Prince Michael of Kent and Aviator Tracey Curtis-Taylor. It seemed Lord Trefgarne (a keen aviator himself) wanted to show his two fellow pilots some of the work we are doing to restore Brooklands place in the history of Aviation Communications.
They had all been guests at the Brooklands Museum Great War Centenary event, where many pre 1918 vehicles were allowed to parade and drive on the banking. The video recording of this visit and other events on the same day can be seen here
Prince Michael is Honorary Vice Admiral of the Royal Naval Reserve. Tracey Curtis Taylor is honourary Lt Commander of the RN Reserve.
Prince Michael is also involved with the Army Air Corps Museum at Middle Wallop and here he is being collected from Battersea Heliport with TCT.
I had a brilliant visit with Prince Michael of Kent to the Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop, Hampshire on January 28th.We flew in a Lynx helicopter from Battersea Heliport on a freezing blustery day, and were given a tour of the museum and told about their very exciting development plans. Had a great lunch with the museum team and their VIP guests, and also caught up with a few old friends who were there to support the occasion. I intend to take the Stearman back to Middle Wallop in the spring. It is
a fantastic place, I can't recommend a visit highly enough.
date Jan 15 source
Tracey Curtis Taylor - Aviatrix, Adventurer, Inspirational Speaker
Prince Michael will ,with nephew and patron Prince Andrew ,be at the HCAP awards dinner in October. At that premier event Tracey Curtis Taylor, a 1600 hour UK private pilot will stand alongside UK spaceman Tim Peake when both will receive a Masters Medal.
Tim will get his for six months in space.
TCT will get hers for achieving lots of print space in newspapers around the world who were misled in to thinking she was a solo 'aviatrix' when in fact it was only a reality tv promo trip.
The award to TCT has been buried way down on their main press release but here is is.
https://www.airpilots.org/file/2365/...nners-2016.pdf
Amazing she is above Tim Peake in the running order.
No one will dare ask why she will receive such a prestigious award for sitting in a restored biplane with a 20,000 hour airline pilot up front. I say no one but there are a few journalists out there who are a bit upset about being part of this con trick of "solo aviatrix'.
The picture below of her arrival in Sydney says it all. I just wonder why members of the HCAP and the LAA are so blind. Without stating the obvious gentlemen can you look at this picture with Ewald Gritsch in the front seat and not agree you have all been well and truly conned?
