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; Earhart, center, wearing pilot skull cap, with officials and admirers next to her Lockheed Vega 5b at Hanworth Airport, London, England on May 21, 1932, after making her solo flight across the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Culmore, Derry, Ireland (13 hours, 30 minutes) on May 20, 1932; 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: Landscape Dimensions: 2430 x 1929 (4.69 MPixels) (1.26) Print Size: 20.6 x 16.3 cm; 8.1 x 6.4 inches File Size: 13.43 MB (14,078,068 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000001584 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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