Amelia Earhart

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 08:57:12 -0500, "Martin X. Moleski, SJ"
wrote in
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On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:15:57 GMT, James Robinson
wrote:
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Mantz is quoted as saying that Earhart was in such a rush to start her
journey that she was inadequately trained on the new radio equipment ...

1. She and Fred Noonan, her navigator, refused to learn Morse Code.
They planned to rely on voice. This became a fatal flaw when they
needed to communicate with the Coast Guard crew waiting for
them at Howland Island.

Mantz also indicated, that at Putnum's instance AE left the long wire
antenna in Florida to lighten the load.*

* Hollywood pilot;: The biography of Paul Mantz
by Don Dwiggins:
http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac...67 8660_2:3:3



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1928: First woman to fly across the Atlantic
(acted as “logkeeper”).

http://www.acepilots.com/earhart.html
She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic on June
18-19, 1928. The flight was the brainchild of Amy Guest, a
wealthy, aristocratic American expatriate living in London. Aware
of the huge publicity that would accrue to the first woman to fly
the Atlantic, the 55 year old Mrs. Guest had purchased a Fokker F7
trimotor from Commander Richard Byrd, to make the flight herself.
Her family objected, and she relented, as long as the "right sort"
of woman could make the flight. The "right sort" would take a good
picture, be well-educated, and not be a publicity-seeking
gold-digger. The Guest family hired George Putnam, a New York
publicist who had promoted Lindbergh's book We, to look for a
suitable women pilot. He selected the little-known Amelia Earhart,
and introduced her as "Lady Lindy".

While the flight instantly made her world-famous, she was little
more than a passenger in the Fokker tri-motor "Friendship." They
took off from Trepassy, Newfoundland, and after a 20 hour and 40
minute flight, landed in Burry Port, Wales. When they went on to
London, another huge mob welcomed them. The pilots, Wilmer Stutz
and Louis Gordon, were all but forgotten in the media frenzy
surrounding the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.