Friday, September 4, 2015
79 Years Ago
Beryl Markham took off from England in a Percival Vega Gull to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic westbound. He goal was to fly to New York, but her fuel tank vents iced over and she was forced to crash-land in Nova Scotia.
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airplanes,
the past is so over
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The linked Wikipedia page says that aircraft has a range of 660 miles. I see the challenge, there.
Two words, Joe: Auxiliary tanks.
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