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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘she had a sprig of heather pinned to her flying jacket, given to her by her mechanic Jock Cameron. ‘If it had been a whole bush of heather, complete with roots growing in an earthen jar, I think I should have taken it,’ she recalled. ‘The blessing of Scotland, bestowed by a Scotsman, is not to be dismissed.’’

what a life story

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/10/this-woman-made-history-with-a-hair-raising-flight-across-the-atlantic-why-havent-more-people-heard-of-her

h/t @mathewi