Honouring....celebrating..commemorating you can call it what you like but a Stearman is not a De Haviland.
Lady Mary Heath and Amy Johnson flew these routes alone in a British built aircraft.
Would it have been so difficult to have found a female pilot such as Amanda Harrison and asked her to try and fly these routes on basic maps and a compass?
In a Tiger Moth.
To survive in similar conditions en route under canvas instead of five star hotels?
It appears many senior old aviation figures (including Barry Tempest ) miss the point that the Artemis/Victory flights were dual with both Tracey and flight instructor Ewald up front.
The problem I have is understanding why Tracey got the publicity and awards and Ewald has been airbrushed out of the whole saga.
The Goodwood and Sydney arrivals were stage managed and choreographed.
Surely Ewald deserves an award for his great engineering?
Something else puzzles me.
Despite all these adventures we never see TCT flying her Stearman solo across the UK.