In 1936, Beryl Markham took off from England alone hoping to reach New York; 20 hours later ice starved her engine and she crash-landed in Canada after becoming the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west
On the evening of 4 September 1936 a turquoise-and-silver monoplane left an airfield in Oxfordshire and set out for the Atlantic. Darkness lay ahead. So did thousands of miles of open water, brutal headwinds and the chance that the aircraft would never return. Beryl Markham, 33, was at the controls…
The Times of India ·
The Times of India
