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Mrs Wadsworth spent the next few years posted at several of ATA's 14 ferry pools, earning her Class 3 licence which allowed her to fly light twin-engine aircraft. Mrs Wadsworth, who was married to Bernard Wadsworth - a flight engineer for ATA - for 71
She added: 'It's a very new experience and everybody finds it difficult at first to think in three dimensions rather than two like when you're driving. 'But if you are taught properly, it is fine. 'Now, when I look back at my log book and my pictures I remember little details about that time and it all comes back to me.'
Mrs Wadsworth, pictured here on an American Hellcat, was one of 166 women in the ATA
years, said she was in the cockpit until the very last day of the war in 1945 when the ATA was closed down. She said: 'I haven't piloted or flown a plane since then. 'I got married at the same time ATA closed, to my husband who continued to work as an engineer.
A video Showing an interview with Eleanor Wadsworth can be viewing by clicking on this link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128317/ Britains-surviving-female-World-War-Two-pilotdies-age-103. Story and images obtained from Mail Online, and credit to James Linsell-Clark/SWNS.com for the photographs.
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