{"id":80865,"date":"2018-07-29T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80865"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:52","slug":"mary-ellis-ata-spitfire-pilot-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80865","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ellis &#8211;  ATA Spitfire pilot dies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ellis died on Tuesday at the age of 101.\u00a0 She has the distinction to be one of the Glamour Girls\u00a0 of the ATA.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Mary Ellis blazed a trail for female aviators, as one of the first women to fly Spitfires, heavy bombers and jet aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>She was a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafmuseum.org.uk\/research\/online-exhibitions\/air-transport-auxiliary.aspx\">Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA)<\/a>, which employed civilians to deliver planes from factories to airfields during the Second World War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you find the time, here are a few videos about her amazing career.\u00a0 What an amazingly full life she had.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spitfire Girl\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/whmh_QKGosQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T03:31:26-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/whmh_QKGosQ?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=whmh_QKGosQ\" data-author_name=\"Discovery UK\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DiscoveryTV\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/whmh_QKGosQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Spitfire Girl\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>This is just wonderful to watch.\u00a0 What an exceptional group of women without whom the war may very well have turned for the worse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Air Transport Auxiliary  - Spitfire Women Preview - BBC Four\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KwKLL0TklxU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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