THE LADY WHO LIKED ADVENTURE
It was one of those impulse buys that can happen while shopping. Mary Bruce was in London looking
for a nice new dress (1) ……… she noticed a showroom with a light aircraft for.
(2) ……… at a terribly reasonable price. Mrs. Bruce went away to (3) ……… on a dress. It did not suit
her. The plane (4) ………. (5). ……… moment in 1930 was the beginning of an adventure for an
intrepid English eccentric who became the most inexperienced pilot ever (6) ……… circumnavigate the globe. (7)
……… qualifying for her pilot'," licence in (8) ……… minimum 40 hours' flying, she took off the same
year on a 16,500-mile flight round the world.
Mrs. Bruce was I9I……… stranger to adventure. She loved (10) ……… with an element of danger in it.
She was (11) ……… the first women in Britain to buy a motorcycle and she (12) ……… to driving racing cars when
she married the racing driver Victor Bruce in 1926. As a couple, they once drove as (13) ……… as they could
into the Arctic Circle before they (14) ……… out of road. In 1929, she (15) ……… a record by covering 674
nautical miles in a powerboat.
Then (16) ……… the moment she spotted the plane. She later recalled: 'I asked the price, then I left
the shop. A little (17) ……… down the street I saw a marvellous dress in another
window, so I went in. Well, the dress didn't suit me one (18) ………so I went back to the
aeroplane showroom. I asked the man, 'Will this take me round the world?" He said, 'Of course it (19) ………
madam.' (20) ……… a week, she was flying solo.
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