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Aviator female

Given the gender discrimination women faced during the first half of the 20th century (not to mention before and since), it is somewhat surprising that this golden age of pioneering aviators featured quite so many female trailblazers. Among them was Beryl Markham who, exactly 80 years ago (September 1936), became the first woman, and only the second pilot, to fly solo east-to-west…

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