Status: Declared dead in absentia Janu(aged 41).' (Wikipedia-Amelia Earhart) J(aged 39) Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, Papua New Guinea Forward by Amelia herself.įinally, some points are particularly prescient of her final flight 'Disappeared This book that I read was a part of the Adventure series done by National Geographic, edited by Anthony Brandt with an Introduction by the lady with whom she worked in the settlement house, The Denison and the editor.

Mechanical problems, need for constant concentration and superior skill. Quite an extraordinary feat, especially for a woman, which you will appreciate even more after reading this account. Quick, do you know the names of the two men who made that flight? She does give them a full page each at the end of the book.

Because she was a woman in that era, it still drew tremendous attention. She made a flight across the Atlantic with two men, but did not pilot at all. For most of the book, I thought that I had been duped by history all these years. Warning-this is Not about her Solo' flight over the Atlantic. Films such as Mira Nair's 'Amelia' do further harm in rewriting an already false history. She is honest, adventurous and amiable, but her place in history is undeserved. Pilots such as Harriet Quimby, America's first female pilot, or Betsy Coleman, the first American pilot of African decent. The last chapter 'Women in Aviation' is interesting, although she fails to what could have been a gracious opportunity, to pay tribute to the woman pioneers that came before her. After becoming lost above a layer of clouds she then intentionally spins the aircraft into the overcast below. The other incident that she relates to clearly shows poor judgement in the extreme. 'Owing to carelessness in not refueling' she runs out of fuel and crashes on take off. In the book's first chapters Earhart retraces her early piloting experiences including two interesting events which clearly exemplify her incompetence. Although Earhart was a licensed pilot, her contribution to the flight was basically non existent.

She had no experience flying multi- engined aircraft or sea planes, nor was she was qualified to fly instruments. Earhart was not qualified to fly the Fokker aircraft. Although simply a passenger, Earhart hints of her leadership role. Hoping to capitalize on the excitement of Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic crossing, entrepreneurially spirited Putman Publishing casts Amelia Earhart as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Amelia Earhart was an incompetent aviatrix and having crashed a half dozen times, mostly during attempts to land or take off, it is quite amazing that she wasn't killed much earlier in her flying career. Our Flight in the Friendship', Amelia Earhart, 1928.

20 Hours, 40 Min by Amelia Earhart