RAF 'Spitfire woman' Eleanor Wadsworth dies aged 103
Nottingham-born second world war pilot operated out of White Waltham in Berkshire
Lanre Bakare
Sun 10 Jan 2021 12.58 EST
Last modified on Sun 10 Jan 2021 23.36 EST
A trailblazing pilot who was one of the last surviving women to have taken on the task of transporting aircraft to the frontlines of the second world war has died at the age of 103.
Nottingham-born Eleanor Wadsworth, who served as one of the RAF’s “Spitfire women†during the conflict, died in December in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk after a short illness. She was one of about 165 women who flew without instruments, flying instructions or radios.
Operating out of White Waltham in Berkshire, the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) programme trained female pilots to fly numerous types of aircraft and played a crucial part in ensuring the RAF was able to fight.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/10/raf-spitfire-woman-eleanor-wadsworth-dies-at-103
