Rita Baines - Flying the Dream https://northstaffordshireheritage.co.uk/2024/01/05/rita-baines-flying-the-dream/ #AirTransportAuxiliary, #RitaBaines, #SecondWorldWar

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2964: Lettice Curtis

Episode: 2964 Lettice Curtis: just one of many heroes of Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary. Today, meet Lettice Curtis.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/engines-of-our-ingenuity/engines-podcast/2023/10/20/466467/engines-of-our-ingenuity-2964-lettice-curtis/

#aerialCombat #AirTransportAuxiliary #ATA #B24Liberator #equalPay #FaireyAviation #FerryingAirplanes #LetticeCurtis #spitfire #TheBattleOfBritain #women #WWII

Fairchild Argus II This Fairchild monoplane was known as the Argus in British service, and was used by both the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during WW2. It is seen at the Yorkshire Air Museum in the colours of a RAF 'second line' WW2 aircraft, in that its undersurfaces are painted yellow, as were trainers, communications aircraft and other types. On the nose you can see the badge of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a civilian, but uniformed, body of men and women. The ATA were headquartered at White Waltham and flew operational aircraft from factories to storage facilities, training units and operational Squadrons. The Argus (and other types such as the DH89 Dragon Rapide and Avro Anson) operated a 'air taxi' service shuttling pilots around. #WW2 #SecondWorld War #FairchildArgus #YorkshireAirMuseum #Yorkshire #unitedkingdom #aircraft #avgeek #aviation #history #DragonRapide #FairchildArgus #AvroAnson #ATA #AirTransportAuxiliary #WhiteWaltham #avroAnson #DragonRapide #RoyalNavy #Fairchild

Women seen fitting out the fuselage of a DH Mosquito. It is safe to say that without a strong effort by the female workforce of Great Britain, Canada and Australia, the De Havilland Mosquito would not have become the war-winning aircraft that it did. Women undertook highly skilled work in the manufacturing sector, maintained the aircraft wearing uniform, and delivered the planes to the frontline in Europe, as members of the Air Transport Auxiliary. The port and starboard fuselage shells will soon be mated together, and the build completed. #WW2 #women #womenatwar #war #DeHavilland #DH98 #Mosquito #fuselage #AirTransportAuxiliary #RAF #SeconWorldWar #avgeek #history #UK #Canada #Australia #aircraft #warplane

First new wikipedia page of 2023. Stefania Wojtulanis-Karpińska aka Barbara Wojtulanis, Polish pilot, flew liaison mission for Polish Air Force then joined #AirTransportAuxiliary in 1941 after fall of France. Flew over 1000 hours in #WWII. Was a bit surprised she didn’t already have a page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Wojtulanis-Karpi%C5%84ska #wikiwomeninred
#wiki @histodons #ATA #pilot #polish @Wikipedia