Mrs. Victor Bruce
1895–1990 (age 95)
Biography
Mrs. Victor Bruce was a daring engineer and aviatrix whose adventurous spirit defied the conventions of her time, winning admiration for her pioneering long-distance flights and record-setting motoring expeditions. Traveling the globe in the 1920s and 1930s, she demonstrated not only technical skill but also steadfast courage.
Her achievements inspired generations of women to pursue careers in engineering and exploration, and her memoirs continue to offer vivid testimony to a life lived at full speed. She remains remembered as a trailblazer in both aviation and motoring.