A Second World War veteran who was based in High Wycombe took to the skies in Spitfire aircraft to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Robbie Hall, 100, was one of the plotters serving with the Women’s Royal Air Force (WRAF) based with Bomber Command at High Wycombe during the war – a station known at the time as ‘Southdown’, to protect its identity.

Ms Hall, who recently celebrated her milestone birthday, took to the skies with fellow veteran Dorothea Barron this month to mark their centenary year – with the two women flying in different Spitfires from the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar in Westerham, Kent, as organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans.

Ms Barron, who turns 100 next month, served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) between 1942 and 1945, teaching semaphore to the troops ahead of D-Day and helping to test the Mulberry Harbours used in the invasion.

 Ms Hall told the PA News Agency that the trip had been “absolutely wonderful” and “glorious”, adding that she had especially enjoyed flying upside down.

The 100-year-old is a regular on Taxi Charity trips, which is run by volunteer London black cab drivers and takes veterans all around the world on free trips.

Just last weekend, she was in the Netherlands for Wandeltocht, the world’s largest one-day commemorative march in remembrance of the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

Vice President of the charity, Dick Goodwin, said the Spitfire expedition had gone “really well”, with the women having “absolutely loved it”.

“I think that the pilot did a couple of rolls for them as well, went upside down for a bit,” he said.

“When they came down, you would think they did it every day. They were just full of the joys of it and chatting away, not a slightest bit of concern or anything.”