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Those magnificent women in their flying machines. For 63 years the vital war work of the Air Transport Auxiliary's women pilots has been overlooked. Until today

, Giles Whittell

The late spring of 1941. A circus in Horley has two elephants for sale. Chief Supply Officer Captain F. Ellam, of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), is on the phone, trying to buy elephants. Capt Ellam agrees terms and the Ministry of Aircraft Production approves funds for what would be the world's first four-legged airfield tractors. The circus offers an Indian mahout to go with the elephants, and the ATA measures him up for a uniform of fine navy worsted. The plan falls through, but only becau...



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