PENSIONER Jean Humphreys has raised £1,255 for St Barnabas House hospice by making a flight in a Spitfire.
Jean, 83, said it was a lifelong ambition to fly in the famous World War Two fighter plane.
She lifted off from Goodwood Aerodrome on a half-hour flight as far as The Needles on the Isle of Wight and over Littlehampton Golf Course.
She said: “It was fabulous; quite noisy and smelly, but exhilarating.
“I did all the appropriate things.
“I did what they call a floppy loop and a barrel roll and we flew over my golf course at an enormous rate of knots and frightened them all to death.
“I’ve wanted to do it for a very long time.”
Jean did a wing walk to raise money for Mending Broken Hearts in 2015.
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