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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.
Beryl Markham, English professional pilot, horse trainer and breeder, writer, and adventurer, best known for her memoir West with the Night (1942; reissued 1983). She also was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
Aug 5, 1986 · The British aviation pioneer Beryl Markham, who in 1936 became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, died Sunday at a Nairobi hospital, her lawyer said today.
Sep 24, 2018 · Beryl Markham (born Beryl Clutterbuck; October 26, 1902 – August 3, 1986) was a British-Kenyan aviator, writer, and horse trainer. Although she worked in several different fields, she is best known for being the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
Jul 20, 2022 · 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."
Sep 19, 2022 · No one has written more lusciously about that pilgrimage, nor undertaken it with more elemental daring, than Beryl Markham (October 16, 1902–August 3, 1986). Known to the world as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from East to West with the sweep of night, against headwinds and storms particularly ferocious in that direction ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Aged thirty-three, Beryl Markham had just become the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, non-stop from Europe to North America, no mean feat given that she was traveling east-west against a 40-mile headwind.
