Wouldn't actually have mattered if she'd batted for the other team RD 'cos German aircraft didn't have a fuel problem to solve (funny that - wonder why I have German cars?) - I was just winding you up!
But she was a one-in-a-zillion person, decades ahead of her time - at least they gave her a gong and she got promoted to 'pretty high up' after the war despite being, omigod, a female. Hard even for those of us of a certain age to think how mysogynist things were back then, despite all the achievements of women in the workforce in the Great War. (I have a friend whose daughter is a Tornado pilot - so there's some evidence that things have changed for the better.)
Thanks for the damninteresting link mikeb - very good, and amusing as well.