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Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 08:09
by Tomliner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44962253
RIP Mrs Ellis and thank you. EricT

Re: Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 08:28
by Paul K
Rest in peace, Mary. Another sad day for this country.

Re: Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 08:42
by Airspeed
Thanks for the news, Eric.
Sad though it is, there's the huge positive that Mary lived so long, and was bright and enthusiastic so close to her demise.
We found the video lovely.
R.I.P. and Thank you.

Re: Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 08:44
by Scorpius
Did she ever write a book? I recall seeing an interview with her where she had delivered a Meteor (she had not seen one before) and commented that she did not have time to read the pilots notes.

Brave woman.

Nev

Re: Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 13:27
by Nigel H-J
Very sad to hear this but she lived a long and had a memorial life.

Watched a documentary on the ATA and she told some amazing stories, just cannot imagine having to get into an aircraft especially something as big as a Lancaster with no radio or navigator, just a flight engineer for company and getting it to an RAF Base, a lot of them did not even have any tuition on how to fly on instruments even.

Blue skies forever. RIP.

Regards
Nigel.

Re: Mrs Mary Ellis

Posted: 26 Jul 2018, 15:07
by Buggyman
So sad to hear of her passing. A great lady indeed.

"Did she ever write a book?"

Yes she did write a book "A Spitfire Girl" which is available in both hard cover and kindle version from Amazon.

ATB


Allan