| McVicar was quite an adventurer, but it was contributions to navigation that probably earned his place in Ferry Command history.
Interestingly, most early Ferry Command pilots were, err, charactors. It was the nature of their recruitment because the RAF wouldn't release trained pilots. So the likes of Powell had to find bush pilots, barn stormers and other "misfits" to do the job. And you had to be pretty eccentric to takeon crossing the Atlantic at that tme. Navigation was poor, the routes untested, and if anything went wrong therewas virtually no hopeof rescue.
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