The 80-year-old DAREDEVIL

Gazing up at the clouds, Johanna Hamer thought fondly of all the memories she’d made while flying high in the sky.

Johanna, now 80, from Cheltenham, has always loved planes. ‘I moved to Jersey from the Netherlands at the age of 19. I worked as an au pair, but I lived close to the airport and loved watching the planes fly overhead,’ Johanna explains.

After her first marriage broke up in 1974, Johanna seized the opportunity to get involved.

‘I found the idea of flying a plane