World’s only female Spitfire pilot killed in car crash 34 years after husband died same way

The world’s only female Spitfire pilot has died in a car crash, decades after losing her husband in the same way. Carolyn Grace, 70, made her name with dazzling air displays in the fighter plane best known for its role in defeating the Luftwaffe in the Second World War’s Battle of Britain. Men said, ‘You don’t care about your children, how could you do that?’ It was pretty hurtful.” open image in gallery Grace in the cockpit in 1993 One male pilot took her aside to warn she was working against her interests. She was raised on an enormous farm in the Australian state of New South Wales and, as she said, “we had a plane to go shopping in Sydney.” open image in gallery Grace flies over Southampton in 2011 for the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the aircraft in the city She was prosaic about her relationship with the Spitfire she flew for decades.