A little more than a year after Charles Lindbergh raised the bar for aviators everywhere, Amelia Earhart earned international headlines of her own when she became the first woman in history to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. On June 18, 1928, the Wisconsin News summed up the event ...
阅读理解 Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on each occasion (场合) she set a new record for flying time. In 1935 she became the first person ever to fly from Hawaii to the continental (大
1929New York Times;Stultz, Amelia Earhart,andLou Gordonfeted in front of City Hall, New York City, following their successful flight across the Atlantic in June 1928. Stultz was the pilot of the Fokker Trimotor “Friendship,” aboard which...
In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (The First Conspiracy), Advice (Heroes for My SonandHeroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia EarhartandI Am Abraham Lincoln) and even comic books (Justic...
BRIEF FLIGHT THROUGH LIFE…Clockwise, from top left,Wilmer Stultz(1900-1929) in undated photo; coverage of the fatal crash in the July 2, 1929New York Times;Stultz, Amelia Earhart,andLou Gordonfeted in front of City Hall, New York City, following their successful flight across the Atlantic...
Letter, 1936 Aug. 12, New York, to Miss Amelia Earhart, Rye, N.Y.Inez HaynesGillmore
Amelia Earhart was the first lady of the air. Flying was a new and exciting activity in the early 1920s. Amelia began taking part in air shows. She crashed one time in a field of cabbage plants. The accident did not stop her from flying. But she said it did decrease her desire to ...
On July 2,1937,Amelia Earhart( an American pilot)and Fred Noonan left New Guinea for Howland Island in the Pacific.This was the longest and most dangerous part of their t(1)___ around the world.Earhart had trouble soon after the plane took off.The weather was very bad,so she had to...
Five years after Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight, Amelia Earhart became the second person to make the voyage. She was also the first woman to attempt the journey, flying from Newfoundland, Canada to Londonderry in Northern Ireland. In 1937, just five years after her historic journey, ...
Above, at left, self-aligning ball bearing from SKF Industries, featured in MoMA's 1934 Exhibition of Machine Art; at right, judges for the exhibit were aviator Amelia Earhart and professors John Dewey and Charles R. Richards, holding first, second and third prizes, respectively. (MoMA) The...