OCR Text |
Show MRS. BULLER ADDED TO FLYING BRIGADE Became Expert at Handling Motors When a Girl; Will Go to Aid of Ulster If Called. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON", May 9. The name of Mrs. Winifred Buller was today added to the strong flying corps of the British league, which will aid Ulster in case of invasion. From her childhood Mrs. Buller has been fascinated by mechanical sciences. She was an expert motorist while- still in her teens. iho made her first aeroplane aero-plane flight in a Breguet machine in 1910 with the ill-fated aivmauj de Mon-talent. Mon-talent. In December, 1911, Mrs. Buller took to flying for herself, entering the Breguet Bre-guet school of flying at Douai. in the North of France, the only woman pupil. pu-pil. There she passed eighteen months, I earn in t? not ouly how to guide an aeroplane, aero-plane, but how to braze, turn or weld all its fittings. On licr third flight she was allowed to conduct the machine herself and immediately im-mediately started to circle the flying ground instend of taking tho pupil's usual short straight first flight. She received her pilot s certificate on April 2, 1912. |