A blue plaque is being unveiled for a pilot who believed 'women did things better than men'.
Richarda Morrow-Tait still holds the record for being the youngest woman pilot with a navigator to fly around the world, according to organisers
Her son Giles Townsend believed his mother's conviction that women could do things better than men made her determined to do the challenge. The plaque will be unveiled at Cambridge Airport at midday.She completed the challenge in two aeroplanes, the first she called Thursday's Child and its replacement Next Thursday's Child
The pilot, who was born in Ickleton, south of Cambridge, was encouraged to take up flying by her then husband Norman Morrow-Tait. She was one of three people to sign up at Cambridge Aero Club on the first day possible. The eventful journey included a minor crash at her first stop in France, a nine-week delay in India for new parts, a forced landing in Japan and a major crash in Alaska in snowy conditions.
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