a man in a flying jacket and scarf with slicked back hair on the left on the right an older woman with a flying cap holds a huge bunch of flowers she is smiling.

Show notes and links for Aviation Mysteries

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The flying Duchess wearing flying hat and goggles on her head, sitting in an aeroplane. She is looking to the side and is clearly an older lady.
The Flying Duchess from The Flight magazine archive from Flightglobal, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Guests of the show

Adrian Perkins the Ghost Detective

Find out more about Adrian on his website here: https://www.ghost-detective.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorsyMJNzikZecatf60sUt-Y-dhO9s0ajECHFmoe13z7Z3ex24po

And you can follow him on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/TGD666/

Chris Williamson of Chasing Earhart Project

Follow Chasing Earhart on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/chasingearhart/

Listen to the podcast wherever you get your pods but here’s a link to spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Ng0SfNYGiuxSBxVYYEEC8

Amelia Earhart, smiling underneath the nose of her plane. She has short tousled hair, a close lipped smile and is wearing a scarf tied at her neck, a plaid short and flying jacket.
Underwood & Underwood (active 1880 – c. 1950)[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Flying Duchess

The Duchess in evening gown with a hat of flowers on her dark hair, the dress is very fancy with a sinched in waist, flouncy shoulders but sleeveless. She has long evening gloves with embroiders flowers as does her dress skirt.
Photo of the Duchess in 1898 The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Find out more about the flying Duchess’ life on the BBC here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2008/08/12/flying_duchess_feature.shtml

And in this blog post: https://chrissyhamlin.blogspot.com/2018/04/mary-russell-flying-duchess-nurse.html

Two women competing in jujitsu the woman on the right is lunging forward and has hold of the woman on the left's leg, The woman on the left has her arms in the air and is falling backwards. Both women have hair plaited and wrapped around their heads and are wearing dark loose trousers and white shirts with belts.
Here’s the picture of her demonstrating jujitsu photo by George Beldam, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Mary, 11th Duchess of Bedford, right, shows the 2nd position of the Shimoku defence as she practices Jujutsu with Emily Watts in the grounds of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, circa 1905.

Find out more about Woburn Abbey here: https://www.woburnabbey.co.uk/

Summer of 1944 in London

A Doodle bug rocket with two wings, tale, pointed front and raised section above the tail. It is in a field there are men in the background and a black and white dog.
A crashed flying bomb which was found intact by members of the 9th USAAF in France 1944/5 .AMERICAN (US) EMBASSY SECOND WORLD WAR PHOTOGRAPH LIBRARY: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From the Imperial War Museum below is an excellent low aerial oblique view showing adjacent V1 bomb damage sites in Lewisham, London. Lewisham Road is the main thoroughfare in the centre of the picture. The flying bomb sites shown are Granville Park (June 1944), Lewisham Hill (top right, June 1944) and Cressingham Road in July 1944. I lived in Lewisham 25 years ago and some of the older residents still talked about the bomb damage and how the nazi’s bombed WH Smiths in Lewisham twice.

An aerial black and white shot of streets some of which are scarred with pale areas of destruction, there are many trees
Stanley Devon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The national archives have a great section about the UK response to the V1 and V2 rockets in 1944 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/british-response-v1-and-v2/

The BBC’s The People’s War archive has lots of information: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a8895432.shtml

Glenn Miller

An information board with an image of Glenn Miller wearing glasses and holding his trombone. The sign next to it reads Glenn MIller in Bedford,
An information board at the Higgins Museum Bedford about Glenn Miller.

You can find out more about the extensive research Dennis Spragg has done into Glenn MIller here on his website: https://www.dennismspragg.com/

For an overview of his life check out the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller

Twinwood

Find out more about Twinwood museum here: https://www.twinwoodaviationmuseum.org/

A black and white aerial photograph of fields and runways, huts and small buildings are scattered about the edge of the runways.
An aerial photograph of RAF Twinwood in 1945 Royal Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Here’s a BBC article about the ghosts at Twinwood featuring a younger Adrian Perkins the Ghost Detective: https://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2008/10/14/twinwood_ghosts_feature.shtml

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart sitting in a plane with the door open. The plane has department of commerce written on its side. Amelia is wearing a checked shirt and is smiling.
Amelia Earhart: photoHarris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

For an overview of Amelia’s life check out the Wkipedia page about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

There’s more info and photos on the Women’s Museum website: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/amelia-earhart

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Published by Natalie Doig

"Science and sorcery." It's a quote from a beekeeper I saw on the TV, about how he sees the work he does keeping bees, a balance between science and sorcery. For me it also sums up my experience of life, my interests and my outlook. I love photography which is a perfect blend of science and sorcery, using light and technology to create magical images. But when I'm not taking photos you'll find me making the podcast Weird in the Wade. I'm also often to be found writing, reading, knitting, riding my mountain bike or drinking coffee watching the world go by. By day I fight for disability rights, equality and inclusion for all.

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