Friday, November 17, 2023

Winifred Buller

Winifred Buller was a British aviation pioneer who served with the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in WW1.

Mrs Buller was the first woman to fly professionally in 1914. Mrs Buller became a professional pilot with Caudron and Co.

Inset is a portrait of British aviator John Alcock (1892-1919), one of the first men, together with his navigator, Arthur Whitten Brown, to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, a feat they achieved in 1919.

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