20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
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This is Amelia Earhart's personal account of the historic flight in 1928 where she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane.
Originally published in 1928. This edition 2003 by National Geographic Society.
I bought my copy in a small shop with books and other stuff in Moab, Utah in March 2011 during our latest stay there. A book on an adventure bought during a kind of an adventure :-).
Originally published in 1928. This edition 2003 by National Geographic Society.
I bought my copy in a small shop with books and other stuff in Moab, Utah in March 2011 during our latest stay there. A book on an adventure bought during a kind of an adventure :-).
I began reading it last summer on our trip to Blåvand, Jylland. I don't read so much these years so it sat for a long time on the table before I continued. Yesterday evening I finished it.
It contains her account of the flight many of it directly from her logbook. It is interesting to read how it was to fly back them when it really was an adventure to cross an ocean by plane.
It also contains some chapters with her thoughts on the future of flight and womwn's role in aviation. Everything was different back then and it is interesting historically.
She became a celebrity just from being the fist woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane - even though she was just a passenger! The men who actually flew the machine was not so interesting to the press or public.
Later Amelia Earhart who was already an accomplished pilot made several famous flights where she actualle flew herself.
It contains her account of the flight many of it directly from her logbook. It is interesting to read how it was to fly back them when it really was an adventure to cross an ocean by plane.
It also contains some chapters with her thoughts on the future of flight and womwn's role in aviation. Everything was different back then and it is interesting historically.
She became a celebrity just from being the fist woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane - even though she was just a passenger! The men who actually flew the machine was not so interesting to the press or public.
Later Amelia Earhart who was already an accomplished pilot made several famous flights where she actualle flew herself.