Chile's first female pilot Margot Duhalde died at 97

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Chile's first female pilot, Margot Duhalde, has died at the age of 97.

She started flying when she was 16 years old, gaining her pilot's licence two years later, just before the outbreak of World War Two.

Mrs Duhalde travelled to Europe to volunteer for the Free French Forces but ended up enlisting with the British.

She spent the war transporting planes into combat zones in continental Europe.

RIP and thank you Col. Duhalde