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Watch: This 92-year-old World War II pilot owned the skies in her old spitfire plane 

Damned good show.

The absolutely best and slightly choked-up bit for me:

“Okay, Joy, when you’re ready - you have control…”

RIP Joy Lofthouse,
14/2/1923 – 15/11/2017, aged 94.

Also RIP Mary Ellis,
2/21917 – 24/7/2018, aged 101.

(At the end of the video, when Joy mentioned the business of radios - Air Transport Auxiliary delivered planes that were “factory-bare” with none of their service equipment in place. No radios - and no guns either, so encountering an enemy intruder aircraft would have been… Exciting.)