Jackie Moggridge features on BBC1's Antiques Roadshow

Captain Jackie Moggridge's daughter was filmed with her mother's record of her flights delivering aircraft from factory to the frontline during the Second World War.

She battled the prejudice of a woman flying in a man's world as a member of the WAAF, ATA and WRAF(VR) during the conflict and was one of only five women who went on to gain their RAF wings.

Later she became the first female British airline pilot on scheduled flights, although she was barred from speaking over the intercom for fear a woman's voice would make passenger's nervous.

The Antiques Roadshow episode at the weekend brought back memories for 97-year-old Brian Physick.

He told the County Gazette: "I flew with Jackie once as a young cadet in the RAF during the war.

"I'd heard she'd flown a Tiger Moth when she was 15.

"One morning she came into the parachute room and said, 'Would you like to come with me today?'

"I jumped at the chance and we flew up to Cosford to pick up a Mosquito (plane).

"When we arrived, I said, 'Have you flown one before?' She said, 'No'.

"But she was a wonderfully capable pilot and flew it down to Fordham.

"It was a great experience for me."

During her lifetime, Jackie ferried 1,438 war planes of 83 different types in the ATA and many more after the war. She flew 500 Spitfires.

She published her autobiography, Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky, in 1957.

In Taunton she was well known as an accomplished performer and member of the Taunton Wayfarers Pantomime Society and the Taunton Operatic Society.

She died aged 81 in 2004 and her ashes were scattered from a Spitfire on Dunkeswell Aerodrome.