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| Tango01 | 19 May 2015 11:13 p.m. PST |
… WWII vet soars again. "This used to be her job, flying the iconic Spitfire fighter over Britain's countryside. Now, seven decades later, Joy Lofthouse got the chance to do it all over again. The 92-year-old veteran of Britain's World War II-era Air Transport Auxiliary recently got the chance to go back up in one of the surviving Spitfires, and she even got to fly it for a bit. "I'm incredible to be in a Spitfire again after so long," she told the BBC. "I'm so lucky to be given a chance to fly in it again." Lofthouse's role during World War II was to ferry aircraft from factories to Royal Air Force units across the country. Hundreds of men and women worked for the auxiliary, helping move dozens of different varieties of aircraft…"
Full article here
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| Zargon | 20 May 2015 3:26 a.m. PST |
Big +1 to our fabulous Joy. One of the 'Few'
God bless her.
Cheers T1 nice find, PS wonder what her call sign was :) perhaps Tango 1.. ? :) |
| Jemima Fawr | 20 May 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
I knew an ex-ATA pilot down this way. She was a heck of a girl even in her 70s! :) Her log-book had over thirty different types listed and she would frequently fly multi-engined aircraft solo! She had to do her own navigation and where necessary had to jump into the engineer's seat to deal with a mechanical crisis! The British generally don't use permanently-assigned personal callsigns. The callsign would normally be the registration number or squadron code-letter of the aircraft (e.g. D-Dog) or a callsign for the formation or that pilot's position within a formation. Generally academic for the ATA, as the aircraft they flew were frequently not fitted with radios… :( |
| jpattern2 | 20 May 2015 5:41 a.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 20 May 2015 8:53 a.m. PST |
Thanks Jemima, nice expiration, (even for a gamer who played Spits vers 109s games I'm a bit ignorant to it all)
Cheers |
| Tango01 | 20 May 2015 11:30 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the news boys! (smile) My friend Zargon … why not? (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Mako11 | 20 May 2015 11:50 a.m. PST |
Glad she got the opportunity again. |
| Tom Bryant | 20 May 2015 7:13 p.m. PST |
Thanks for sharing this one Tango. Miss Joy, thanks with the assist in getting top cover for the Allies. May we be worthy ma'am. |
| Tango01 | 20 May 2015 11:36 p.m. PST |
No mention my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
| Jemima Fawr | 21 May 2015 5:22 p.m. PST |
If you can find it on Youtube, there was a brilliant BBC(?) documentary on female ATA pilots, screened about 2010ish. |
| Jemima Fawr | 21 May 2015 5:27 p.m. PST |
Aha! Here it is – watchable for another 15 days and absolutely brilliant: link If you're not in the UK, you might not be able to watch the link above. However, there is a short précis of the programme on Youtube: YouTube link |
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