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Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America.
A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Latin America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft , airships , balloons and other aircraft.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to Derry, Northern Ireland. In 2019, Aarohi Pandit became the first woman pilot in the world to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean light-sport aircraft, Pipistrel Sinus 912.
First female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean: Amelia Earhart, in a Lockheed Vega 5B, flew from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Culmore, Ireland, on May 20, 1932. [ 189 ] First successful helicopter with a single main lifting rotor : Alexei Cheremukhin and Boris Yuriev's TsAGI -1EA, which flew to a record altitude of 1,985 ft (605 m ...
She was the first female pilot to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean and set many other records. [2] She was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines , an organization for female pilots.
Frank Rothwell, a 74-year-old from the UK, wasn't sporty as a child but got into sailing in his 30s. He switched to rowing in his 70s — he has now twice rowed across the Atlantic solo. He raised ...
First solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis (20/21 May 1927). [9] Ed Link: 26 Jul 1904 7 Sep 1981 United States: Science Design Support n/a Inventor of the Link Trainer flight simulator (1929); [123] received Royal Aeronautical Society Wakefield Gold Medal (1947). [124] Mikhail ...
“That sounds right up your alley,” she said when he told her about a solo race with a DIY ethos and an ocean to cross. At first, he had thought the race, called the Globe 5.80 Transat, a ...