Neall Ellis is a South African military aviator. Raised in Bulawayo, he enlisted in the South African Air Force after a brief stint in the Rhodesian Army and later contracted for various private military corporations, including Executive Outcomes and Sandline International. During the civil war in Sierra Leone, he and his crew held off Revolutionary United Front (RUF) forces almost single-handedly, and the capital was only overrun after his Mi-24 Hind gunship broke down.