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Catfish · 09-05-16, 12:18 PM

Well it was yesterday, but still: Beryl Marham flies from England to Canada in a one-engined tiny Vega Gull:

"On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight, her Vega Gull, The Messenger, suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (her flight was, in all likelihood, almost identical in length to Mollison's). In spite of falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham

09-05-16, 12:18 PM	#1489
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,908 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Well it was yesterday, but still: Beryl Marham flies from England to Canada in a one-engined tiny Vega Gull: "On 4 September 1936, she took off from Abingdon, England. After a 20-hour flight, her Vega Gull, The Messenger, suffered fuel starvation due to icing of the fuel tank vents, and she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada (her flight was, in all likelihood, almost identical in length to Mollison's). In spite of falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.