Having mastered the Mk VIII Spitfire, Maxi has a date with Flying Legends at IWM Duxford, and meets original ATA ferry pilot, Mary Ellis. Words Maxi Gainza, Photos John Dibbs If you haven’t read part ...

Mary said, “You’d get out of a Tiger Moth into a Wellington bomber and then into a Spitfire” but the Spitfire was “everybody’s favourite” aircraft. “Being an ATA pilot was fantastic,” Mary Ellis ...

Video: Touching moment last of the Spitfire Girls was reunited with iconic plane which she signed as a romantic gesture in 1944 as Mary Ellis passes away aged 101 ...

Mary Ellis, who played a vital ... Among the 70 models of planes she flew, according to Forces.net, a military-focused British website, was the famed Spitfire fighter, ...

A Spitfire Vb AB910 from the Battle of Britain ... after being inspired by the story of Mary Ellis - the pioneering Second World War pilot. His efforts raised £250 for the charity, which supports ...

Getty Images - Getty Mary, who also enjoyed driving rally cars, married Donald Ellis in 1961, who shared her love of flying. In 2017, just before her 100th birthday, Mrs Ellis flew in a Spitfire ...

Mary Ellis, who died in July aged 101 ... The service included a recording of a spitfire engine, and of Mrs Ellis, who described flying the fighters as "playing in the clouds".

After the service, people watched a Spitfire flypast in tribute to Mary Ellis Among those who paid tribute after she died at her home in July, ATA secretary John Webster described Mrs Ellis as an ...

Mary Ellis, one of the last surviving female pilots from World War II, died on July 25 at age 101. A member of Great Britain’s Royal Air Force, Ellis delivered fighter planes and bombers from ...

The death of Mary Wilkins Ellis (her married name ... had a near-miss when landing in thick fog at the same time a combat Spitfire landed on the same runway from the opposite direction.