Father: George Black (NZ Superintendent of Dalgety & Co, d. 1937) Ed. St Hilda's Collegiate School, Dunedin prev. exp: 129 hrs 50min, on DH 60, DH82, DH94, Miles Hawk, Magister, Whitney Straight, BA Swallow, Percival Vega Gull, Avro Avian in New Zealand and Australia Next of Kin: (Aunt) Mrs Owen Gould, Hampton, Otago NZ prev. Equipment Assistant, RNZAF, 21 Apr to 24 Nov 1941 Address in 1942: c/o New Zealand House, 415 The Strand, London She arrived in the UK from Aukland on the 19 Feb 1942, quoting her address as c/o Dalgety & Co., Leadenhalll St, London Postings: 1FPP, 15FPP, 12FPP, 6FPP 7 accidents, only 1 her fault: - 19 Jun 1942, in a Hart; her approach was too slow and she made a heavy landing, damaging the engine mountings; - 2 Mar 1943, she landed her Hurricane and hit an unmarked dip, causing the undercarriage leg to collapse; - 18 Sep 1943, the cockpit cover of her Spitfire broke away during flight; - 11 Mar 1944, another landing accident, this time in a Typhoon when the tail wheel retracted due to a hydraulic fault; - 27 Sep 1944, when the starboard undercarriage collapsed in an Argus; this time a sunken drainage gulley was to blame, and - 12 Feb 1945, her fourth undercarrriage landing-run collapse, this time the port wheel of a Beaufighter, and - 11 Apr 1945, a precautionary frced landing in a Beaufighter when the port engine lost revs. "A cheerful, hardworking pilot" "A good ferry pilot; always ready for any job allotted to her". m. Feb 1946 Christopher Dalton Beaumont in Thornbury, Gloucestershire d. 9 Jul 1977 - Nelson, NZ Download ATA Pilot Personal Record (.zip files):
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