{"id":88309,"date":"2022-03-15T05:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=88309"},"modified":"2022-03-15T05:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:43:29","slug":"this-is-wizard-100-year-old-woman-who-flew-spitfires-during-the-second-world-war-celebrates-her-centenary-by-getting-behind-the-controls-again-by-sarah-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/this-is-wizard-100-year-old-woman-who-flew-spitfires-during-the-second-world-war-celebrates-her-centenary-by-getting-behind-the-controls-again-by-sarah-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is wizard!&#8217; 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again &#8211; by  SARAH OLIVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8216;This is wizard!&#8217; 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again &#8211; by SARAH OLIVER<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/span>:<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4191976\/Woman-flew-spitfires-WWII-celebrates-100th.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dailymail.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"ext-gen42\" class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Mary Ellis was in a select gang of female pilots who flew during World War II<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>She has now celebrated her 100th birthday by flying a plane over West Sussex<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Mrs Ellis flew next to one of the Spitfires she was in more than 70 years ago<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88313\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88313\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/This-is-wizard-100-year-old-woman-who-flew-spitfires-during-the-Second-World-War-celebrates-her-centenary-by-getting-behind-the-controls-again-by-SARAH-OLIVER.jpg\" alt=\"'This is wizard!' 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again - by SARAH OLIVER\" width=\"306\" height=\"463\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Ellis as a Air Transport Auxiliary pilot during WW2<br \/>***INTERNET IMAGE***<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Tearing through the skies above the South Coast, two Spitfires evoke powerful memories of Britain&#8217;s wartime resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">But this stirring image holds a further poignancy \u2013 for in the cockpit of the lead aircraft sits Mary Ellis, celebrating her 100th birthday by recreating her time as one of the &#8216;Ata-girls&#8217;, the select gang of female pilots who flew Britain&#8217;s fighters during the war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And over her shoulder is one of the actual Spitfires she flew during her 1,000 flights as a First Officer with the Air Transport Auxiliary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;Wizard, this is wizard!&#8217; yelled the delighted centenarian through her intercom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mary was handed the controls of the 275mph twin-seater as it swooped over West Sussex. After about 15 minutes, she turned for home, and told her co-pilot Matt Jones: &#8216;Goodwood on the nose, you have control\u2026&#8217;. Then she settled back to enjoy the ride back to base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Earlier, Mary watched in delight as Spitfire MV154 took its place beside her in an extraordinary airborne tribute. It was a plane she had delivered to RAF Brize Norton from Southampton on September 15, 1944, and it hides a sentimental secret. For at the end of the 25-minute wartime flight, she signed the cockpit, scrawling her maiden name Wilkins and the initials ATA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/1406259.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88311\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-88311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/This-is-wizard-100-year-old-woman-who-flew-spitfires-during-the-Second-World-War-celebrates-her-centenary-by-getting-behind-the-controls-again-by-SARAH-OLIVER-3-e1647322629650.jpg\" alt=\"'This is wizard!' 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again - by SARAH OLIVER\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mary Ellis (circled) was handed the controls of the 275mph twin-seater as it swooped over West Sussex<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mary was usually found at the joystick of a Spitfire or a Hurricane but ultimately flew more than 50 types of aircraft, logging 1,100 hours of flight, much to the astonishment of some colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As she sat on the airfield ready to deliver her first Spitfire, the mechanic standing on the wing asked how many of them she&#8217;d flown. When she said it was her first, he was so startled he fell right off. The largest aircraft she flew solo was the Wellington bomber. After landing at an East Anglian airfield, Mary was greeted by the ground crew who asked where the pilot was. &#8216;I&#8217;m the pilot,&#8217; she said. They insisted on searching the aircraft before they believed her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It was dangerous work. Mary was sometimes ordered to move combat-damaged planes that were not officially fit to fly, but had to be taken for repairs. She crash-landed twice and was shot at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88310\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-88310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/This-is-wizard-100-year-old-woman-who-flew-spitfires-during-the-Second-World-War-celebrates-her-centenary-by-getting-behind-the-controls-again-by-SARAH-OLIVER-4-e1647322755956.jpg\" alt=\"'This is wizard!' 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again - by SARAH OLIVER\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mrs Ellis toasted a glass of champagne with co-pilot Matt Jones, managing director of Boultbee Flight Academy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Fourteen of her fellow ATA female flyers lost their lives, including aviation pioneer Amy Johnson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mary \u2013 who to this day needs no spectacles, nor a walking stick \u2013 was one of the last six women serving in the ATA when it disbanded after the war. She remained a private pilot and then became managing director of Sandown Airport on the Isle of Wight. She married Don Ellis, a fellow pilot, in 1961, but was widowed in 2009. Matt Jones, who flies Spitfires for Goodwood-based Boultbee Flight Academy, reunited Mary with MV154 after first meeting her in 2015. He conspired with the plane&#8217;s current owner, pilot Maxi Gainza, to bring it to the UK from its base in Bremgarten, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He said: &#8216;I gave Mary control of our Spitfire. I wasn&#8217;t sure where we were but Mary was very clear. She pointed us towards Thorney Island, up through the Witterings, flew on to Selsey Bill and then Bognor Regis, never losing a foot of altitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8216;She showed me precisely how she was able to deliver all those aircraft with just a map, a compass and a stopwatch. I was utterly humbled by a superior aviator who also happens to be 60 years my senior!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This is wizard!&#8217; 100-year-old woman who flew spitfires during the Second World War celebrates her centenary by getting behind the controls again &#8211; by SARAH OLIVER Source:dailymail.co.uk Mary Ellis was in a select gang of female pilots who flew during World War II She has now celebrated her 100th birthday by flying a plane over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[42537,42538],"class_list":{"0":"post-88309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-mary-ellis","9":"tag-second-world-war","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;This is wizard!&#039; 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