West with the Night she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. West with the Night West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was
To Fly! States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The movie was shown in 1979 at Six Flags Great America theme park's "Pictorium" and was the first movie shown at the new theatres. "To Fly!" was the highest grossing documentary of all time before the release of "Fahrenheit 9/11" in 2004. It has grossed $86.6 million domestically and $120.7 million worldwide, which it has accumulated during its decades in release. The movie is still shown daily at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. To Fly! To Fly! is a 1976 documentary film