She Flew 400 Spitfires...

On Tuesday July 24th 2018, Mary Ellis aged 101 died. She was a member of the Air Transport Auxiliary and delivered over 1,000 aircraft (including 400 Spitfires) during WWII, flying 76 different aircraft in the process.

She told a story about delivering a Wellington bomber to an RAF base and the ground crew would not believe a woman had flown it single-handed. Eventually, after insisting on searching the Wellington from top to bottom, they had to acknowledge that she was the pilot.

For the full story follow this link to the BBC obituary:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-43518517