In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart departs Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a $10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first. The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she safely landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.
On May 21, 1932, exactly five years after American aviator Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart became the first woman to repeat the feat when she landed her plane in Londonderry, Ireland. However, unlike Lindbergh when he made his historic flight, Earhart was already well known to the public before her solo transatlantic flight. In 1928, as a member of a three-member crew, she had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aircraft. Although her only function during the crossing was to keep the plane’s log, the event won her national fame, and Americans were enamored with the modest and daring young pilot. For her solo transatlantic crossing in 1932, she was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross by the U.S. Congress.
Two years after her Hawaii to California flight, she attempted with navigator Frederick J. Noonan to fly around the world, but her plane was lost on July 2, 1937, somewhere between New Guinea and Howland Island in the South Pacific. Radio operators picked up a signal that she was low on fuel—the last trace the world would ever know of Amelia Earhart.
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Poor Amelia. At least she chose an appropriate profession. Girl had a face made for radio.
In the old days this is how woman proved they were as good as men. Now they just dye their hair purple and get a nose ring.
Today’s men prove they’re as good as women via trans surgery, plus:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/disturbed_to_the_nth_degree_men_now_inserting_frozen_tomato_paste_cubes_for_a_mock_fem_cycle.html
Ok, so any excuse to tell some family history:
In the early 1920’s my grandfather was a ranger in Yellowstone National Park. He had been leading pack trips into the Yellowstone wilderness for a couple of years and my guess is that the Park Service just made it official. He just led larger groups and had more support.
Anyway, somewhere in there he led a group that was headed up by George Palmer Putnam and the two men hit if off and remained in contact. In 1925 or ’26, Putnam invited my Grandfather out to New York to see the sights and meet his new girlfriend (fiancée? Not sure if they were engaged at this point. Putnam was recently divorced) one Amelia Earhart.
Also, at some point during this trip, Putnam suggested that my Grandfather go on this Arctic expedition that he was financing. The Morrisey set sail in the Summer of 1926, captained by Bob Bartlett (Peary’s captain) with my Grandfather aboard, along with David Putnam, bowman Art Young and many others.
The trip is detailed in the Book “David Goes to Greenland”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33134135-david-goes-to-greenland#:~:text=David%27s%20account%20of%20the%20American%20Museum%20Greenland%20Expedition%2C,camera%2C%20bow%20and%20arrow%2C%20and%20lariat%20and%20harpoon.
and a year or so ago, I found this movie about the voyage that was made in 1947:
My grandfather lassoed a bunch of animals, including a pair of Polar Bear cubs that ended up at the Bronx Zoo.
In 1928, he decided that he liked leading Dudes and would never stop adventuring, but he wanted to do it on his own terms. So, he and a partner built the Double Dee ranch in the middle of nowhere Wyoming outside the town of Meeteetse. Near, the ghost town of Kirwin, which they also owned at the time.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/kirwin-wyoming
And of course, the most famous visitors to the ranch were GP Putnam and Amelia Earhart in 1934.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/earhart-once-piloted-across-wyoming
Amelia fell in love with the place so much that she asked my grandfather to build her a cabin even above Kirwin…about as remote as it gets. He was a few logs high building the walls when he got news that she had disappeared over the Pacific.
There is not much left now, but it is still very much on the edge of the wilderness:
My grandfather also wrote memoirs that my parents self published in 1998.