Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right young lady to fly the Atlantic. The Hon. Mrs. Frederick Guest, he said, had secretly bought a plane from Commander Byrd with the intention of being flown herself, but her family had interfered. If a "suitable" substitute could be found, Mrs. Guest still would finance the flight. Said Capt. Railey: "You wait," and hastened to Boston. When he returned Publisher Putnam's eyes popped with pleased astonishment...
...admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able to publish "A. E.'s" book of her flight to Wales, entitled...
Last week Publisher Putnam was fidgeting and fretting in a hotel room. Somewhere out over the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, N. F. was "A. E.," alone this time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
Later, while A. E. was telling the Press that she had made the flight "for the fun of it," G. P. was telling the Press at home that soon he would publish her second book, entitled...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...