CHAPTER I
.—Toronto Days 29 II.—Early Aviation 43 III.—My Own Plane 59 IV.—I Shift My Base to Boston 82 V.—Preparations 95 VI.—Off for Newfoundland 117 VII.—At Trepassey 147 VIII.—Across 170 IX.—Journey’s End 198 X.—Aviation Invites 212 XI.—Women in Aviation 237 XII.—Problems and Progress 252 XIII.—Retrospect 279 Wilmer Stultz—Pilot 311 Louis Edward Gordon—Flight Mechanic 313
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE On the “President Roosevelt” _Frontispiece_ London News Agency Photo.
Amelia Earhart 35 Underwood and Underwood.
Wilmer Stultz 36 International Newsreel.
Slim Gordon 41 Paramount News Photo.
Mrs. Guest Returning to New York is Met by Commander Byrd from Whom She Purchased the “Friendship” 42 International Newsreel.
My First Training Ship, 1920 51
A. E., 1928 52
Southampton—Mrs. Guest, Gordon, A. E., Stultz, Mrs. Foster Welch 57 Keystone Views.
After My First Solo, 1921 58
My Cabbage Patch Landing, California, 1921 63
“I was Fond of Automobiles, Horseback Riding, and Almost Anything Else that is Active and Carried on in the Open” 64
“Ladies’ Day” 73 Sykes in the _New York Evening Post_.
Brynjulf Strandenaes Paints a Portrait 74
Flyers All—Eielson, Wilkins, Byrd, Chamberlin, Balchen, Stultz, Earhart, Gordon 83 P. & A. Photos.
Boston, June 9 84
At Boston with Her Mother and Major Woolley, whose Flying Coat Miss Earhart Wore Across the Atlantic 93 Wide World Photos.
“The Yellow Peril” and Her Driver Back in Boston, before Denison House 94 International Photos.
Welcomed by the Southampton Crowd 103 Wide World Photos.
At Medford, Massachusetts 104
Ready to Go 113
A Picture of the “Friendship” Over Boston 114 Autographed before the flight started.
Percy Crosby’s Skippy Has His Own Ideas about Flying the Atlantic 123
The “America” as Photographed through the Open Hatch in the Bottom of the “Friendship’s” Fuselage 124
On the Step 133
Flying to Boston—Gordon, A. E., Stultz, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Stultz, Mrs. Putnam 134
Stultz in the Cockpit of the “Friendship” Looking Aft between the Gasoline Tanks 143 P. & A. Photos.
Two Musketeers and—What is a Feminine Musketeer? 144
“X Marks the Spot” 153 Our Home in Trepassey.
Main Street, Trepassey 154
Slim on the Job 163 International Photos.
The Inevitable Winter Woodpile 164
The “Friendship” Off Trepassey 173
B-a-a-a! A Front Lawn at Trepassey 174
Lady Lindy; Lady Luck 183 Rollin Kirby in _The New York World_.
For Nineteen Hours Only a Sea of Clouds 184 Wide World Photos.
The “Friendship” “Bombing” the “America” 193 U. S. Shipping Board.
The Last Page in the Log Book 194
We Didn’t Doubt that Tying to the Buoy was Against Official Etiquette 203
“We Opened the Door of the Fuselage and Looked Out upon what we Could See of the British Isles” 204 International Newsreel.
Landing at Burry Port—the Ubiquitous Autograph Seeker 213 Wide World Photos.
The First Step in England. Hubert Scott Payne Helps Me Ashore 214 International Photos.
In London (Miss Earhart) 223 Topical Press Agency.
“A Big Smile, Please!” 224 Paramount News Photo.
The Bobby Said: “If My Wife Sees This—!” 233 Keystone Views.
Off for Ascot—Mrs. Guest and Her Sons Winston and Raymond 234
Between Us Girls 243 Weed in _New York Evening World_.
First Look at Burry Port 244 P. & A. Photos.
2500 Feet Up. A. E. and Mrs. Putnam Sign the Guest Book of Jas. H. Rand’s Trimotored Ford the “Rem-Rand” 253
A. E., Thea Rasche, Ruth Nichols at the Westchester-Biltmore 254
Goodbye 263
At Toynbee Hall, London 264 Wide World Photos.
Arriving in Boston by Plane, July 9 273 P. & A. Photos.
Lady Heath and Her Historic Avro Avian 274
Rear Platform Stuff 283 Wide World Photos.
With a Model of the “Friendship” Presented by A Boston Schoolboy 284
The Camera, too, Handed Us Brickbats 293 These are culled from our less (oh, far!) ♦flattering photographic souvenirs.
♦ “flattering-ing” replaced with “flattering”
Yesterday’s Hero, and Today’s 294 John T. McCutcheon in _The Chicago Tribune_.
From Pittsburgh to Altoona 297
Before the Flight in Boston—A. E. and G. P. P. 298
Two Characteristic Pages from the Trans-Atlantic Log Book 305–6–7 The difficulty of writing in the dark is exemplified by the penmanship of the second page.
Boston, 1928 308
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