17 June 2016
History for the day: 1928: Amelia Earhart
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On 17 June 1928, Amelia Earhart (photo) embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland, Canada to Wales in England in about twenty-one hours.
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1 comment:
On the June 1928 flight Earhart flew as a passenger in the Fokker Trimotor The "Friendship", with Wilmer Stultz piloting and Lou Gordon navigating. She flew solo across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1932 in her Lockheed Vega 5B.
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