Ronnie Butcher, a 98-year-old woman, defied gender norms by enlisting in the air force and becoming a plane mechanic. Raised in a convent, Ronnie's rebellious nature led her to pursue a career that was uncommon for women at the time. She excelled in her training and enjoyed the challenge of taking apart and fixing planes.
When Ronnie Butcher is not playing bingo with a friend, the 98-year-old is telling jokes she declines to repeat. Ronnie also politely refrains from elaborating on what it was like being raised in a convent between the ages of three and 15, while her parents were working. “I’m a little rebellious,” she says before bursting into laughter. “Maybe a lot rebellious.
” Like when Ronnie repeatedly witnessed her neighbourhood in London being bombed during the war, she decided enlist in the air force when she was 17, on the first day she was eligible, without telling her parents. “When I went home and told my father, who was already in the Royal Air Force, he just about had a fit,” Ronnie says. “I wanted to do things that the average woman didn’t want to do,” Ronnie says. Ronnie says she graduated from training near the top of her class and became one of the few women to become a plane mechanic, which she excelled at. “I enjoyed having something to take apart and put together and make work,” Ronnie smiles. “And I had to fly in every plane that I worked on
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