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MORE THAN A FLIGHT OF FANCY My wife Blanche and I enjoyed your review of Glenapp Castle as we have had the pleasure of spending a night there several years ago when it was owned by the McMillan family. It is a charming castle. I don’t remember seeing the Churchill portrait – possibly it is an addition of Paul and Poppy Szkiler, the present owners. Jack Hunter’s 2008 book A Flight Too Far, The story of Elsie Mackay of Glenapp, gives more detail on Elsie’s remarkable 1928 failed attempt to fly westward non-stop from England to Long Island, USA, against the prevailing winds in a single engine plane. Elsie’s double ambition was to make the more difficult first east-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by plane and the first either…

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