Page 3 Girl. Elly Beinhorn.
Elly Beinhorn was born in Hanover, Germany on 30 May 1907.
When Elly was 21 she attended a lecture by Hermann Köhl, about his East-West crossing of the Atlantic. From this came her all consuming interest in aviation, and she moved from Hanover to Spandau, near Berlin to learn to fly. Elly financed her flying lessons by using a small inheritance, and she went solo in a Klemm L20 and received her pilots license in 1929.
Elly Beinhorn supported herself financially as a journalist and photographer as well as giving aerobatic displays at weekends, but her real interest was long distance flight. Her career in this area started badly. She was asked to deliver a parcel of clothes to Rome and got lost. After a forced landing Elly arrived in Rome by commercial flight twenty fours hours late.
Her next major flight was her first solo flight to Africa in 1931, and that turned out no better than her trip to Rome. Elly had to make a forced landing in the desert where she was rescued by local members of the nomadic Tuareg tribe, who came upon this woman who had fallen out of the sky and onto the desert, and they put her on a camel caravan headed for Timbuktu. She then caught a commercial flight back to Berlin.
Later in 1931 Elly Beinhorn set off on a round the world trip in her Klemm L20. She did not fly all the way but made long legs over the ocean by ship. Her route was basically the overland route from Berlin to Bali and on to Australia, by sea to New Zealand and then South America. The final leg from the East coast of South America to Berlin was also by sea. On her way she had mechanical problems in Persia (Iran) 
and was helped by Moye Stephens and travel-adventure writer Richard Halliburton who were flying around the world in a Stearman C-3B biplane. They flew as a group for part of the trip including Mount Everest. Elly arrived back in Germany in 1932. In 1933 Elly was awarded the Hindenburg Cup, the highest German award given to a civilian pilot. The Klemm was retired and Elly acquired a Messerschmidt Me 108 Taifun (Typhoon) that was 