So far as I know I was the only professional woman pilot in Africa at that time period I had no freelance competition in Kenya, man or woman. - Beryl Clutterbuck Markham

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So far as I know I was the only professional woman pilot in Africa at that time period I had no freelance competition in Kenya, man or woman.

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About Beryl Clutterbuck Markham

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. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, West with the Night.

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Native Name: Beryl Markham
Alternative Names: Beryl Clutterbuck
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Moreover, it seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of town, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit.

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