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92-year-old female WWII Pilot flies her plane again after 70 years
(CNN)This used to be her job, flying the iconic Spitfire fighter over Britain's countryside.
Now, seven decades later, Joy Lofthouse got the chance to do it all over again. The 92-year-old veteran of Britain's World War II-era Air Transport Auxiliary recently got the chance to go back up in one of the surviving Spitfires, and she even got to fly it for a bit.
"I'm incredible to be in a Spitfire again after so long," she told the BBC. "I'm so lucky to be given a chance to fly in it again."
Lofthouse's role during World War II was to ferry aircraft from factories to Royal Air Force units across the country. Hundreds of men and women worked for the auxiliary, helping move dozens of different varieties of aircraft...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/19/living...veteran-flies/
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