This Kenyan chick flew planes without speed indicators

Beryl Markham

Kenya Airways, ‘The pride of Africa.’ You might gloss over what that means until you are at Oliver Tambo airport in ‘Jozi’ (Jo’burg) and a Kenya Airways plane taxis down and you spot country colours on the livery of the wing with KQ, the international code at the centre.

By the way, that KQ name has to do with the collapse of the East Africa Community in 1977 when East Africa Airways gave way to Kenya Airways. Naturally, the code could have been KA. But that had been taken by Korean Air hence KQ for late comers.