The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-03
Second Flight She
 Has Tried This Year
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Auxiliary radio equipment included an emergency generator which could be driven by wind if the reg ular generator failed.
 The plane, originally designed as a transport, was constructed of light alloys and powered by two 550- horsepower engines. Its cruising speed at 10,500 feet was more than 200 miles an hour. Fully loaded the monoplane weighed 10000 pounds
 Plane Experiments
 Before the Oakland Honolulu flight Miss Earhart conducted ex- periments with the plane at Purdue University where she was on the faculty of the Purdue School o1 Aeronautics.
 Miss Earhart, called the Lady Lindbergh" because of her physica. resemblance to Col. Charles A. Lind bergh, and the similarity of theil accomplishments, was born F Atchison, Kan, July 24, 1893. She was educated in the Hyde Park high school, Chicago, the Or gontz School for Girls, Rydal, Pa. and Columbia university, New York She began flying in the early 1920s when she was 9 and flying was considered mans game"
 A year later, after instruction by Frank Hawks, noted speed flyer, she became the first woman to receive transport pilots license from the National Aeronautic association The Federation Aeronautique Inter- nationale also licensed her.
 First Record in 1921
 Her first of many records was set in 1921 when she broke the woman's altitude mark by flying to 14,00C feet in California. After an inter- Jude during which she devoted her time to social settlement work in Denison House, Boston, and tc teaching, she started flying again
 On June IT, 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlan- tic. She was a passenger in tri- motor land plane which Louis Cor don flew from Harbor Grace, N. F. to Burry Point, Wales, distance of 2,026 miles, in IS hours 40 min utes.
 In October, 1928, she made the first solo flight by e woman pilot across the country and back. Al Detroit. she set two women'S speed records miles an hour over g 10O-kilometer closed course and 181-18 miles an hour over a three. kilometer closed course.
 Altitude Record
 Three years later, in April, she set an altitude record for women in ar autogiro, ascending 19,0o0 feet over Willow Grove, Pa. In June of that year she had her first misfortune Her autogiro was forced down ir Texas, but she got it into the ail again and resumed her journey. The following September she cracked ur an autogiro at Detroit but was moi injured.
 On Feb. ', 1892, she married George Palmer Putnam, then 6 publisher, whom she had met through literary work connected with her flying.
 The following May she conquered the hazards of ice on the wings storm and exhaust flames and drove her high-winged Lockheed Vegs monoplane from Harbor Grace tc Londonderry, Ireland, in IA hours and 56 minutes, the fastest north Atlantic crossing to that date.
 Hoover Honored Her
 In June, 1882, President Hoover presented her with the National Geographic society's gold medal and in the following month she cracked the women's transcontinental rec- ord by 10 hours. A year later she broke her own mark, flying from Los Angeles to Newark in 17 hours 2 minutes. This record still stands but Laura Ingalls later broke her east-west record.
 On Jan. Il, 1885, Miss Earhart took off from Wheeler Field on the Island of Oahu, 25 miles from Honolulu, and set her little red monoplane down at Oakland, Calif. lS hours and 30 minutes later, bee coming the first woman to fly the Pacific and the first person to fly from Hawaii to the coast of the United States.
 Last year Purdue university pre- scented her the giant plane with which she attempted the round-the- world flight.
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