Até ai nada de mais já que uma das funções das WAAF era fazer translados de aviões militares - pelo qual não recebiam pagamento - ou trabalho de mecânico.
E foi como mecanica que Margat Horton voou num Spifire...
Sentada em sua cauda!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stor ... 2275.shtmlBut there was another incident about flying training. As I mentioned, Kirton had a satellite airfield at nearby Hibaldstow. This was in April 1945, not long I had been posted from Kirton and was in Brussels. It involved a W.A.A.F. flight mechanic, ACW Margaret Horton, and a veteran Spitfire. When an aircraft engine had been serviced, the practice was for the training instructors to run the engine and do a particular test. Margaret had finished work on the Spitfire, when the pilot began this test. It was necessary, if it was windy, for a mechanic to sit on the tail of the aircraft while it taxied to the end of the runway ready for take-off. The mechanics were given the order, ‘Tails’. Having got to the runway, the aircraft would pause for the mechanic to drop off. This time the pilot did not pause. Whether he was unaware that the order to ‘tail’ had been given, nobody knows. He just carried on with Margaret Horton hanging on for grim death, and him unaware that he had a ‘passenger’ on the tail. ‘I thought the aircraft was tail-heavy’, he said later. The Spitfire had risen to 800 feet or more when the strange shape of the tailplane was noticed from the ground. The emergency services were called out and the pilot talked back in without being told what had happened. The aircraft landed safely with Margaret Horton still in one piece. Just how daft the machinery of the R.A.F. could be was shown when she was reprimanded for her unofficial flight and charged for the loss of her beret! She was posted later to West Raynham and, despite her ordeal, survived into her eighties.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/ ... eab910.cfm
Assim que notaram a silhueta estranha da cauda do Spitfire ordenaram o piloto a pousar, o que ocorreu normalmente.
O piloto informou que achou o avião "pesado" de cauda, mas não desconfiou da "passageira".
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