Evening star., 1935-05-08
AMELIA TAKES OFF
FROM MEXICO ON
2,1O(EM|LE FLIGHT.
Braves PeriIs of Lifting Ship
in Rare Air for New
York Hop.
NONSTOP COURSE SET
700 MILES OVER GULF
Intends to Land Either at New
ark or Floyd Bennett Airfeld
in Brooklyn.
BULLETIN.

The naval radio station here was IN
communication at 1890 pm. with
Amelia Earhart and everything
was 20. K" on her nonstop fight
from Mexico, D. F., to New York.
Southeast of New Orleans"
Amelia messaged, flying at 10000
feet. Everything o. K" The naval
station furnished her with the
weather report it was clear here.
(Copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press0
MEXICO, D. F., May 8.-Eager to
blaze another new aerial trail, Amelia
Earhart hoped off at am. q am.
Eastern standard time) here today on
an attempted 2,1OO-mile nonstop flight
to New York.
The famed woman flyer, conqueror
of two oceans, lifted her heavily
loaded red monoplane into the air
after taxing two miles along the
three-mile runway especially pre-
pared for her and then circled to gain
altitude
Once she was high enough in Mex
ico's rarified atmosphere, she headed
straight across the 1O,000-foot noun
tains between the capital and Tam
pico.
700 Miles Across Gulf.
Thence her course lay across 700
~.;1o. of tho Gulf of Mayic0 Tn Nnw
Orleans. After her Louisiana land
fall, she planned to fly straight for
New York
Hardly had dawn broken over the
field smoothed out for her by Mexican
soldiers when Miss Earhart slipped
into her parachute and climbed into
the big red monoplane she flew from
Honolulu to California.
In the ships tanks were 472 gallons
OF gasoline and 20 gallons of oil. The
total load weighed 5000 pounds.
A sandwich, boiled egg, bottle Of
water, bar of chocolate and container
OF grapefruit juice had been placed
aboard to stave of hunger during the
flight, which she estimated would re-
quire from IA to 16 hours.
Few long distance flights have been
started from Mexico because of the
difficulty of getting off the ground
with heavily loaded planes at this
altitude.
Realized Crash Danger.
While recognizing the danger Of
crashing, Miss Earhart expressed de-
termination to attempt the New York
flight in order to make up" for the
failure of her attempted nonstop
flight from Burbank, Calf, to Mexico.
A bug got into her eye when she
was only 60 miles short of her goal
and forced her to land.
The flyer planned to maintain con-
tact with the ground by radio.
AS she took of, she waved her hand
In farewell to the little group of news
paper men, camera men and Army
flyers gathered to witness the early
morning take-of.
Miss Earhart's ship is equipped with
radio sending and receiving apparatus,
by means of which she maintained
contact with land stations during her
recent Pacific flight.
Aviation experts here said the
woman flyers take-off was the most
perilous ever attempted in Mexico.
Miss Earhart had complete confidence
in her ship, however, and apparently
experienced no difficulty, rapidly re-
gaining altitude and disappearing over
the mountains.
Landing Not Decided.
She said she might land either at
Newark or at the Floyd Bennett Air
field in Brooklyn.
Reports from Tampico said Miss
Earhart's ship was not sighted at the
hour she should have passed over that
city. but airport officials here said they
believed she was flying too high to be
seen.
Successful completion of the 2,10O-
mile flight to New York would add
another feather to Miss Earhart's fly
ing cap, already well bedecked.
The wife of George Palmer Put
nam, the publisher, she was the first
woman to fly by plane across the At
lantic and also the first woman to
dy solo across that ocean.
She was the first person, man or
woman, to make two plane flights
across the Atlantic and to fly solo
from Honolulu to California.
Among feminine records she holds is
that for airline distance (national
and internationally for a flight, made
August 24-25, 1882, when she flew
from Los Angeles to Newark, N. j.,
and the Women'S national speed rec
ord, 174.897 miles an hour, set at De-
troit in 1880.
She also holds the first Federation
Aeronautique Internationale license
issued to an American woman, and
the fourth transport license issued to
q woman.
1916 HOUR FLIGHT LIKELY.