Ohh nice!<p>I've been following her articles for a year or so, but I recently stopped checking her site because the articles are so few and far between now. They used to come very regularly. I'm glad she's still making new ones. The last one about egyptair was months ago. So I wasn't sure if she'd stopped or something.<p>I guess she's either not got much material left to write about or she's busy with other work. But I'm always happy to read new stuff <3 and it's worth waiting for.<p>Ps it might be a bit of a morbid interest but I fly myself and I get really interesting insights from it. I only fly small stuff but still.<p>Ps2 this is the second B17 crash she's written about. There's not a lot of them left now in flyable condition :'(
>and two “scanners.” The purpose of the scanners was to stand by the B-17’s rear doors and keep lookout for other aircraft<p>I spoke to one of the CAF "scanners" when the B29 "FiFi" visited nearby and he said one of their roles was to watch for smoke in case one of the engines caught fire. The engines are "upgrades" from just after the war.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFI_(aircraft)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFI_(aircraft)</a>
A really sad tale, but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications.
> The air boss’s role in a directed performance has been compared to that of an orchestra conductor.<p>"Untrained musician directing an unrehearsed piece" is not even how orchestras work.