beryl markham flew across the atlantic on 4 september 1936.
when did beryl markham fly across the atlantic?
4 september 1936
when markham decided to take on the atlantic crossing, no female pilot had yet flown non-stop from europe to new york, and no woman had made the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. markham hoped to claim both records. on 4 september 1936, she took off from abingdon, southern 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. she became the first person to make it from england to north america non-stop from east to west and was celebrated as an aviation pioneer.
beryl markham
bullet::::- trzebinski, errol. "the lives of beryl markham." new york: w.w. norton. 1993. .





















































bullet::::- wheeler, sara. "too close to the sun: the audacious life and times of denys finch hatton." new york: random house. 2006. .





















































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bullet::::- bror von blixen-finecke





















































section::::external links.





















































bullet::::- "beryl markham" page at www.karenblixen.com.





















































bullet::::- "new york times" review of "world without walls: beryl markham's african memoir" (1986)





















































bullet::::- "new york times" review of "beryl markham: a shadow on the sun"





















































bullet::::- biographer mary s. lovell's page for "the splendid outcast"





















































bullet::::- kirkpatrick family archives group sheet for butterwick line at http://genealogy.kirkpatrickaustralian.com/archives/familygroup.php?familyid=f7266&tree=tka
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