If available on BBC IPlayer, then watch 'Spitfire Women' shown last Monday evening. The documentary includes interviews with the women pilots who flew over 150 different types of WW2 ac with no training. They were just given a flight manual as they got into the cockpit of the ac to be delivered - Bombers, Fighters, the whole caveat. No radio, no ammo and flew in weather conditions that grounded the RAF and yet they succesfully flew by instruments and managed to navigate to their destination. Some amazing stories and well worth watching. They were damned good pilots for sure........
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