Oh, this is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

I am dissapointed, though, at a few characters who've been forgotten. Among them was Defiant, luckless in that the competition she was predicted to ace after her performance in practice had the rules entirely changed before the main events (escorted bombers were just SO not cricket) leaving her helpless before she found a surprise talent in the Night Fighting event. There were also the Blackburn sisters, Defiant's cousins: crazy Roc, who almost matched Defiant in practice but kept trying to hang out with Wildcat until she got slugged in the face for her troubles (with Wildcat wearing a disguise as the mysterious Martlet at the time) and was never seen again in the series; and Skua, probably the most level-headed of the three but sadly alone in her duties on the British Carrier Team, and chronically overworked trying to compete in both the Fighter and Dive-Bombing competitions. She did have a quiet camaradie with Dauntless that was touching, though.

Whirlwind had a sad arc, never quite living up to the billing that had preceded her and feeling badly overshadowed by P-38 early on, then P-47 later. Her reaction when she learned her sister Welkin wouldn't be attending the matches after all was heartbreaking.