Podcasts Arts Guinness World Records: Record of the Day RotD: 2nd July – First solo flight across the Atlantic by a woman, first flight from Hawaii to the US mainland, first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air

RotD: 2nd July – First solo flight across the Atlantic by a woman, first flight from Hawaii to the US mainland, first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air

Published: July 2, 2020, 6:45 a.m.

Ben’s gone off-brief again, taking the 83rd anniversary of her disappearance as an excuse to cast aside all the perfectly good records that were broken on this day in order to talk about record-breaking aviatrix Amelia Earhart.