SWB.
To answer your first question about Portsmouth Poly they merely acknowledged receipt of my message. Nobody there referred to the content ie, the (then) controversy surrounding her claims.
As for HCAP they issued a written announcement in the program at tonight's dinner. It was only for the attendees to browse and not read out.
"The Master's Medal
TRACEY CURTIS TAYLOR
Between October last year and January this year, Tracey Curtis-Taylor led an aviation expedition from the UK to Australia, retracing the routeflown by Amy Johnson as tribute to herand evoking the pioneering spirit of that era, but with a very different purpose or objectivefor the whole undertaking. Unlike Amy Johnson's flight this was not a solo flight and it was sponsored by Artemis and Boeing as part of a promotional endeavour to encourage females into aviation. Tracey's team consisting her co-pilot and engineer, Ewald Gritsch, flying with her in the Stearman biplane, and film crew in a Cessna Caravan chase-plane throughout the expedition, together with back-up and logistics support team, were all there with one specific principal aim in mind: to promote aviation to many thousands of youngsters, especially women, across the globe for whom flying is a distant, even unknown or seemingly unachievable activity,. The entire expedition was filmed for a documentary and will show, better than can be described by any citation, how this outreach to youngsters in the Middle East and Asia in particular was achieved.
This was a singularly spectacular and successful advertisment for women.....blah blah blah....following social media....birdinabiplane (irony)....woman in a cockpit....consider the impact (irony again)......".
Spin worthy of a dervish.