- Member of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), she piloted Spitfires and bombers of 76 different types of airplanes. She was manager of Isle of Wight Sandown Airport.
- She grew up on a farm in Oxfordshire, near RAF bases at Bicester and Port Meadow. Her father paid a flying circus to take her on a short flight in a de Havilland biplane. As a teenager, she took flying lessons. When WWII broke out, she qualified for the Air Transport Auxiliary, which allowed women pilots to join starting in 1940.
- When the ATA was disbanded in 1945, she was seconded to the RAF, where she became one of the first women to fly Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor.
- She passed away nine days after the release of Spitfire (2018), in which she was featured.
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