[3] She was active in the Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet (Women's Defence Organisation)[4] and the youth arm of the Aeroklub Warszawski (Warsaw Aero Club), where she was nicknamed Barbara by her fellow pilots and met Jadwiga Piłsudska.

She was involved in all types of air sports, beginning with her participation in the 8th Krajowe Zawody Balonów Wolnych o Puchar im.

The women's team of Wojtulanis and Zofia Szczecińska took fourth place, covering a distance of 189 kilometres (117 mi) and landing in Wygoda near Zalishchyky.

In June that year, she completed an aerobatics course on RWD-10 and RWD-17 aircraft, and demonstrated her skills in July at the X Zlot do Morza (10th Rally to the Sea).

[8] Until December 1939 she remained in Romania, where she served as a courier, travelling throughout the country and helping to escape and deliver money and documents to interned Polish airmen fleeing to France.

After the fall of France in the summer of 1940, she made her way to the United Kingdom on the Polish liner Batory from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to Plymouth.

[10] The ATA service was arduous, with flights taking place without radio communications, navigation charts, often in poor weather conditions, and it also required her to learn to fly the various types of aircraft delivered, including twin-engine bombers such as the Vickers Wellington.

[2] Stefania Wojtulanis married senior Polish air force General, Stanisław Karpiński on 6 June 1946.

[13] There she studied computer programming[8] and worked as a data processing clerk[13] and was involved in social activities, taking part in Polish immigrant and veteran organisations.

In 1993 the International Forest of Friendship in Kansas honoured her with a granite slab with her name and her own tree; the only one dedicated to a Polish aviator.