Show Miss l Earhart's Flight Recently Lad Lady Mary Heath one of England's most famous flyers had an article in an American magazine in which she expressed the opinion that no woman would ever eer fly across the Atlantic alone and that an attempt to do so would be suicidal Hardly had the ink dried on the magazine pages when Miss Amelia Earhart flew alone from New NewFoundland NewFoundland NewFoundland to Ireland in 12 hours and 30 minutes covering a dis distance tance of about 1900 miles thus proving that Lady Mary Iary was wrong Miss Earhart's feat has been widely acclaimed as second only to Lindbergh's New York to Paris flight She is the only woman ever to cross the Atlantic in an airplane md and has done so twice the first time as a passenger with Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in June 1928 She made t the e first flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back in an autogiro last year ear and has made numerous altitude and speed records for women Miss Earhart who in private life is Mrs Geor George e P Putnam said nid after makin making her trans trans-Atlan trans tic tic flight that she only wanted to show how that a woman could do it and modestly added Outside of demonstrating thata that n a woman can fly the Atlantic alone I dont don't see sec that Ive I've added any thing anything to aviation science or any any- thing anything else |