2. A Famous Woman Pilot

After 60 hours without sleep, flying at 17 000 feet over India, Judith began to hallucinate (产生幻觉). Faces of relatives and friends began to appear around her . But even if she was physically and mentally (精神上) worn out , she decided to continue her record breaking round-world flight and fly on to Sri Lanka.

“I had planned to land in India ,” she says, “but I couldn’t take the risk(冒险) of being delayed.” Later in the flight Judith found herself flying through a storm during which the plane was struck by lightning. “In all my years of flying. I’ve never been so frightened . ” she says.

And then, within four hours in Australia, there was something wrong with engine , which nearly forced her down into the ocean. On reaching Sydney, Judith decided she was able to fly on and when she finally touched down at London, Heathrow, her tiny shingle-engined plane hand taken her over 27 000 miles in 15 days . She had broken 29 world records including the fastest-ever-round-the-world flight by a woman. During those 15 days she had slept for less than 40 hours.