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.

2 comments:

  1. The linked Wikipedia page says that aircraft has a range of 660 miles. I see the challenge, there.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Two words, Joe: Auxiliary tanks.

    ReplyDelete

House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.

In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.

All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.

(Please don't feed the trolls.)

中國詞不評論,冒抹除的風險。僅英語。

COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.