Title: Amelia Earhart Description: Amelia Earhart (Amelia Mary Earhart: AKA: Lady Lindy, after male pioneer aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, July 24, 1898-July 2, 1937?, declared dead, January 5, 1939.), American Aviator; shown on July 4, 1937 is Lieutenant Commander (USNR) Clarence Strong Williams, rechecking the routes he chartered for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in their Pacific flight, believing that both were still alive at the time of this photo and that Earhart might have landed her plane at Baker Island, forty miles from Howland Island, her destination after taking off from Lae, New Guinea on July 2, 1937; Amelia Earhart had a burning desire to become a pilot early in life, devoting herself to aviation, having taken her first flight instructions from female pilot Anita "Neta" Snook in 1920; Earhart was selected by millionaire publisher George Palmer Putnam to be the first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic in 1928, in a tri-motor Fokker airplane called Friendship, purchased from explorer-pilot Richard E. Byrd; Earhart flew in the Friendship from Newfoundland to Wales on June 17-18, 1928, but pilot Wilbur Stultz actually flew the plane; Earhart was nevertheless celebrated as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane; Putnam divorced his wife Dorothy and married Amelia on February 8, 1931; She set her own flying records, becoming the first woman to fly the Atlantic in a solo flight in 1932, and flying solo from Hawaii to the mainland in 1935; Putnam bought Earhart a $50,000 Lockheed twin-engine, 10-passenger 10-E Electra in which Earhart attempted an around-the world flight; she and navigator Fred Noonan flew from Lae, New Guinea toward tiny Howland Island on July 2, 1937, and vanished; it was claimed that Earhart was on a secret mission to photograph Japanese airfields, but crashed on Saipan, where she was imprisoned and later murdered by her Japanese captors; a fictionalized profile of Earhart was depicted in the 1943 film Flight for Freedom, starring Rosalind Russell. Category: Crime Keywords: solo flights, vanishings, women aviators, women pilots, air records, aircraft, airplanes, aviation, aviation pioneers, aviatrix, Richard Evelyn Byrd (October 25, 1888-March 11, 1957), disappearances, female aviators, female pilots, missing persons, Frederick Joseph Fred Noonan (April 4, 1893-July 2, 1937?), pilots, George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887-January 4, 1950), Saipan, Anita Snook (Southern, AKA: Neta, February 14, 1896-March 23, 1991) Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1740 x 2507 (4.36 MPixels) (1.44) Print Size: 14.7 x 21.2 cm; 5.8 x 8.4 inches File Size: 12.50 MB (13,106,822 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001635 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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