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After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Amy Phipps Guest, an American socialite 1873-1959, expressed interest in being the first woman to fly or be flown across the Atlantic Ocean. After deciding the trip was too perilous for her to undertake, she offered to sponsor the project, suggesting they find another girl with the right image.
While at work one afternoon in April 1928, Earhart got a phone call from publicist Capt. Hilton H. Railey, who asked her, Would you like to fly the Atlantic?
The project coordinators including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam interviewed Amelia and asked her to accompany pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon on the flight, nominally as a passenger, but with the added duty of keeping the flight log.
The team departed Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m on 17 June 1928, landing at Burry Port (near Llanelli), Wales, United Kingdom, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later. Since most of the flight was on "instruments" and Amelia had no training for this type of flying, she did not pilot the aircraft. When interviewed after landing, she said, Stultz did all the flying - had to. I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes. She added, "...maybe someday I'll try it alone.
When the Stultz, Gordon and Earhart flight crew returned to the United States they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York followed by a reception with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
CONDITION: Hard Cover, signed as a gift to previous owner from her father, inside front cover a paste in poem of Amelia Earhart about courage being the price for peace, 1928, 61 illustrations. Light wear to book.
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