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
Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States crossing within the hours of daylight, the flight established new records for time, distance, and average speed (128.37 mph) in transcontinental flights. Maughan's record was not eclipsed until August 20, 1928 when Hollywood stunt flier Arthur C. Goebel, in what was the first nonstop flight across the continent from west to east, flew from Los Angeles, California to Curtiss Field, New York in the Lockheed Vega "Yankee Doodle" (NX4789), in 18 hours and 58 minutes, averaging . Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States The "Dawn to dusk" transcontinental flight across the United States was a pioneering aviation record established