To quote Terry Holloway
It is a FACT that the citation for the HCAP award says it was an award for a DUAL flight, and Erwald is mentioned in that citation. Nothing could be clearer than that!
If it was never intended to be a 'solo' flight why the charade at Farnborough and Sydney?
Ewald was hidden from the media and never mentioned until the truth emerged.
The full details of the redrafted citation are here.
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 route flown by Amy Johnson as tribute to her, and evoking the pioneering spirit of that era, but with a very different purpose or objective for 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 advertisement for women in aviation, worldwide. Whether young women witnessed the flights directly, or indirectly by following social media or press campaigns, many will have been inspired by this ‘bird in a biplane’. In many of the countries en route and where Tracey and her team stopped-over, refuelled or put-on demonstration flights, a woman driving a car is almost unheard of, let alone flying a plane. Consider the impact that seeing a woman in the cockpit had on many of those young, impressionable women.
The Master’s award recognises Tracey Curtis-Taylor’s work in raising awareness of science and technology in general, and aviation in particular, amongst young women across the world. In recognition of her role as leader of this aviation expedition, and all it achieved, Tracey Curtis-Taylor is awarded the Master's Medal for 2016.
https://www.airpilots.org/about-the-...masters-medal/
They had to really burn the midnight oil at HCAP HQ to write the above as they waded through all the press cuttings last year revealing the solo headlines months earlier were untrue.
I won't bother posting the original from Chris Ford.
Terry Holloway..She got sponsorship from Boeing for flying a Boeing aircraft (leading up to their centenary). Sponsorship is intended to gain publicity and that seems to have been successful!
I am not sure Boeing want to post this picture in their reception Terry.
Or this one
The above are ironic given this quote.
Amy Johnson, who dared the unique venture had completed less than 100 flying hours and had literally crashed, while making a forced landing in Australia, as Tracey apprised the media of that historic feet. She smilingly said, ‘I can’t reproduce what she did’.
source
https://www.liverostrum.com/karachi-...l#.WKRRwXgbmrU
If you really think the thread deserves closing Terry then a question and answer session on Pprune with TCT, Boeing,Artemis,Tim Kelley and D'Arcey Partnership will achieve that.
All the above were more than happy to talk to the media last year.
However when the truth started to emerge they avoided the limelight.
Answers to Jonzarno's questions might be a start?