Richarda Morrow-Tait ‘Dikki’ was inspired to fly while at school during the 1930s, and with only 85 hours flying experience, she started her round the world flight lasting a year and a day, completed on 19 August 1949.  She used two aeroplanes,‘Thursday’s Child’ and ‘Next Thursday’s Child’, and following her return, Richarda wrote the story of her flight but she did not go on to publish it in her lifetime. After Richarda’s death the manuscript of her story was re-discovered by her second husband, who went on to publish ‘Thursday’s Child: The Story of the First Flight Round the World by a Woman Pilot’, which he jointly edited with Norman H. Ellison. Today, Richarda still holds the record for being the youngest woman with a navigator to fly around the world, and until 2022 retained the overall record for the youngest woman to fly around the world.