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Subj: Today in History - Jan 11
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In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart
departs Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North
America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to
whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling
2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at Oakland Airport in
Oakland, California.
On May 21, 1932, exactly five years after American aviator Charles
Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean,
Earhart became the first woman to repeat the feat when she landed her
plane in Londonderry, Ireland. However, unlike Lindbergh when he made
his historic flight, Earhart was already well known to the public before
her solo transatlantic flight. In 1928, as a member of a three-member
crew, she had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an
aircraft. Although her only function during the crossing was to keep the
plane’s log, the event won her national fame, and Americans were
enamored with the modest and daring young pilot. For her solo
transatlantic crossing in 1932, she was awarded a Distinguished Flying
Cross by the U.S. Congress.
Two years after her Hawaii to California flight, she attempted with
co-pilot Frederick J. Noonan to fly around the world, but her plane was
lost on July 2, 1937, somewhere between New Guinea and Howland Island in
the South Pacific. Radio operators picked up a signal that she was low
on fuel–the last trace the world would ever know of Amelia Earhart.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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