Beryl Markham: The First Female Pilot To Make A Non-Stop East-West Transatlantic Flight

In 1936 English-born Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham became not only the first female but the first aviator to fly solo westward across the Atlantic to the United States from Europe. She documented her achievement in a memoir titled "West with the Night."

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