A suggestion was made that some women joined the ATA due to connections. That may have been the case, learning to fly was not cheap and was only really affordable to the wealthy few. And then as is now, the wealthy move in their own circles. But what is very clear is that firstly, most of their flights were solo, even in multi-crew aircraft, secondly they did their own planning and nav. was done the traditional way. To survive the war they must have been pretty good pilots.
But I digress. Connections? Is someone going to tell me that TCT got her sponsorship cash with a few emails and phone calls? That there was no behind the scenes action? No help from friends or associates of associates? The net has a nasty habit of remembering everything.
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