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30 “Luckily I was over the field” and “the moment I flew up”: Davis, Amelia Earhart, 55.
31 “After flying my Kinner Airster”: Hatfield, Los Angeles Aeronautics, 57.
32 Vassar College: PSC, Scrapbook #1.
33 “She handled the ship”: Jim Montijo, letter, July 5, 1984.
34 First flying record: Earhart, Fun of It, 77–78.
35 Sixteenth woman in FAI: Patrick Welsh, letter from National Aeronautic Association to Federation Aeronautique Internationale, March 31, 1926.
Chapter 4. Ceiling Zero but Lifting
1 “no pay, no fly”: Earhart, Fun of It, 26.
2 “I think that Dad imagines”: Bobbi Trout, interview, January 4, 1984.
3 “There is no way”: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 119–27.
4 “The kid must have frozen”: Donna Kinner Hunter, interview, January 6, 1984.
5 Photography class notebook: SLRC, A-129 F. 3.
6 Crossing Canada: PSC, misc. documents.
7 Medford, Mass.: Earhart, Fun of It, 50–51.
8 Yellow Peril: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
9 “I need the money”: Ninety-Nines Archives.
10 “As long as I have that motor”: Hunter, interview.
11 “This time she lived poorly”: Stabler, interview.
12 Classical music: Elise von R. Owen, interview, June 16, 1984.
13 “I want a figure”: Stabler, interview.
14 “No, I did not get into MIT”: ibid.
15 On not marrying: ibid.
16 Amelia and Sam: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
17 Scrapbook: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 134–35.
18 Children of Denison House: SLRC, A-129 F. 3.
19 “tenderness for children”: Stabler, interview.
20 “a sound education”: Davis, Amelia Earhart, 64.
21 Dennison Airport: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
22 Denison House: PSC, Scrapbook #1: Herald (Boston), July 3, 1927, p. 2.
23 “Though I haven’t a real job”: Stabler, interview.
24 “May I report”: Hunter, interview.
25 Ruth Nichols: Adams, “Woman Makes Good Her Claim,” 6.
26 Letter to Ruth Nichols: Nichols, Wings for Life, 93–94.
27 Letters to Bert Kinner: Hunter, interview.
28 Interview with Railey: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 140.
29 Charles Lindbergh: Allen, Only Yesterday, 181, 183.
30 Amy Phipps Guest: Putnam, Wide Margins, 292–93.
31 Finding a woman to fly the Atlantic: Railey, PEB, September 10, 1938.
32 “A thoroughly fine person”: Reginald K. Belknap, Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.), May 22, 1932, sec. A, p. 5.
33 “Her resemblance to Colonel Lindbergh”: Railey, PEB.
34 “You may grant me pardon”: Stabler, interview.
35 George Palmer Putnam: Margaret H. Lewis, interview and material provided subsequently, October 24, 1985.
36 Interview: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 141.
37 “Was I willing to fly the Atlantic?”: Earhart, Fun of It, 60–61.
38 “I found myself in a curious situation”: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 141.
39 Boarding the train: Morrissey, interview, April 20, 1983.
40 Money from royalties or advertising: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 110.
41 “Courage”: Zonta Awards, p. 9.
42 Will and letters to parents: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 146.
43 To Hilton Railey: Railey, PEB.
Chapter 5. Across the Atlantic
1 Description of Richard Byrd: Emory Land, COHC, vol. 1, pt. 3.
2 Stultz’s agreement with Boll: NYT, June 3, 1928, p. 2.
3 Stultz as alcoholic: C. L. Zakhartchenko, interview, February 10, 1985.
4 Friendship crew: NYT, June 3, 1928, p. 2.
5 Purchase of Friendship: Allen, “Friendship,” 16–17.
6 Alleged promise: NYT, June 3, 1928, p. 3.
7 Thea Rasche: NYT, May 6, 1928, p. 22; May 16, 1928, p. 2.
8 Other crossings: AYB, 1929, 156.
9 First prize: NYT, May 14, 1928, p. 9.
10 “I did not dare”: Earhart, Fun of It, 62–63.
11 Women’s flying organization: Nichols, Wings for Life, 44–45.
12 “The mob should be thought of”: Earhart, correspondence, Earhart Collection, NASM Library.
13 “the first woman chosen”: NAA, Boston chapter, press release, May 29, 1928, p. 1.
14 Weather reports: NYT, June 8, 1928, p. 6.
15 Letter to Muriel: NYT, June 5, 1928, p. 3.
16 Friendship takeoff: ibid., p. 1; Earhart, Twenty Hours, 115–17.
17 Descriptions of Amelia: NYT, June 4, 1928, p. 2.
18 Accuracy of description: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
19 Amelia’s hair: Bernard Wiesman, interview, December 10, 1985.
20 Stenographer’s notebook: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 119–20.
21 Halifax: ibid.
22 “Boston Girl Starts Atlantic Hop”: NYT, June 4, 1928, p. 1.
23 Longest nonstop flight: NYT, June 5, 1928, p. 1.
24 Pumping gas: NYT, June 5, 1928, p. 3.
25 “Miss Earhart’s slightness”: ibid.
26 “Good trip from Halifax”: ibid., p. 1.
27 “No laundry”: Putnam, Wide Margins, 288.
28 Attempts at takeoff: NYT, June 7, 1928, p. 1; June 8, 1928, p. 4.
29 Beaching the plane: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 160–61.
30 Invitation from Mabel Boll: NYT, June 14, 1928, p. 16.
31 Stultz drinking: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 151–52.
32 Amelia taking command: PSC, 1928 Atlantic Flight, Preflight Correspondence.
33 Gordon leaving: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 152–53.
34 Weather conditions: ibid.
35 Sobering Stultz: ibid.
36 Cable to Putnam: NYT, June 18, 1928, p. 2.
37 Taking off: NYT, June 18, 1928, p. 2.
38 Stultz’s bottle: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
39 Gordon takes over flying: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 170–99.
40 Last part of flight: ibid., 182, 192.
41 Flight over: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 156.
Chapter 6. The Circus
1 Burry Port: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 156–57.
2 “men, women, and children”: NYT, June 19, 1928, pp. 1–2.
3 “The accident of sex”: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 201.
4 “Excited?”: Railey, PEB.
5 Never touched controls: NYT, June 19, 1928, p. 1.
6 Day in Southampton: ibid., 1–2.
7 “Amelia Earhart Flies Atlantic”: NYT, June 19, 1928, p. 1.
8 “unquenchable determination”: The Times (London), June 19, 1928.
9 “to render service”: NYT, June 19, 1928, p. 3.
10 “a feat none of her sex”: Daily Express (London), June 19, 1928.
11 “to bring home to everyone”: Daily Telegraph (London), June 19, 1928.
12 “The voyage itself”: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 291–92.
13 “the palpitating interest”: Liberté (Paris), June 19, 1928.
14 “from first to last”: Morrissey, interview, April 19, 1983.
15 Welsh marriage proposal: NYT, June 21, 1928, p. 1.
16 Ride through London: ibid.
17 Telegram from Henry Ford: PSC, 1928 Atlantic Flight, Miscellaneous.
18 Lady Mary Heath: AYB 1929, p. 158.
19 Purchase of Avro Avian: NYT, June 27, 1928, p. 14; Richard S. Allen, letter, January 20, 1986.
20 Selfridge and the de Sibours: NYT, June 22, 1928, p. 1.
21 Lady Nancy Astor: NYT Magazine, June 3, 1928, p. 1.
22 “tousled golden curls”: NYT, June 26, 1928, p. 26.
23 “Everyone I have talked to”: NYT, June 28, 1928, p. 16.
24 Sailing for New York: ibid.
25 Foreign vessels: NYT, June 21, 1928, p. 1.
26 Prince of Wales: NYT, June 27, 1928, p. 26.
27 “It’s bad enough in London”: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 162–63.
28 Stultz’s death: NYT, July 2, 1929, p. 1.
29 Boarding the Macon: NYT, July 7, 1928, pp. 1–2.
30 Ruth Nichols: Nichols, Wings for Life, 95–96.
31 New York greeting: NYT, July 7, 1928, p. 2.
32 Auction: PSC, 1928 Atlantic Flight, Miscellaneous.
33 Amy’s feelings: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 3.
34 “rigidly erect of carriage”: NYT, June 19, 1928, p. 2.
35 Public affection: Unidentified newspaper clipping, Earhart Collection, NASM Library.
36 “She was just the same”: Wiesman, interview.
37 Quitting social work: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 166.
38 “a secret tryst”: Herald and Examiner (Chicago), July 10, 1928, p. 5.
39 “daunted by the sea of faces”: Pittsburgh Press, July 24, 1928, p. 1.
Chapter 7. The Hustler’s Apprentice
1 “It was a beautiful car”: Charles LeBoutillier, interview, May 10, 1986.
2 “For occupation might write skeleton”: PSC, 1928 Atlantic Flight, Preflight Correspondence.
3 Dedication: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 7.
4 The house in Rye: Dolphin, Fifty Years of Rye, 57–60.
5 Dorothy Putnam’s interests: Sally Putnam Chapman, interview, September 21, 1985.
6 “an educated and cultivated person”: NYT, July 18, 1928, p. 3.
7 Paying for Avro Avian: R. S. Allen, letter.
8 Leaving Rye: Letter to Stabler, August 16, 1928.
9 Plans for flying west: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
10 Crackup: NYT, August 31, 1928, p. 1.
11 “All they had to do”: Daily Phoenix (Muskogee, Okla.), September 5, 1928, p. 1.
12 Country club dance: Post Dispatch (St. Louis), September 4, 1928, p. 3.
13 “to some man, too” and “She was really sort of homely”: Daily Phoenix, September 5, 1928, p. 1.
14 Leaving for Glendale: LAT, September 14, 1928, pt. 2, p. 7.
15 National Air Exhibition: ibid., September 15, 1928, p. 1.
16 “a glimpse”: Examiner (San Francisco), September 17, 1928, p. 5.
17 “I didn’t want to bother with her”: Hunter, interview.
18 Silver pilot’s wings: Herald (Boston), November 12, 1928, p. 16.
19 Visit to Utah: Tribune (Salt Lake City), October 4, 1928, p. 1.
20 Complexion: World-Herald (Omaha), October 11, 1928, p. 1.
21 “Why they even cut pieces”: World-Herald, October 12, 1928, p. 6.
22 “scandalizing progress”: Earhart, Twenty Hours, 286–87.
23 Chrysler roadster: NYT, July 11, 1928, p. 9.
24 Flying suit: NYT, July 23, 1928, p. 5.
25 Tobacco endorsement: Morrissey, interview, April 20, 1983.
26 “a symbol of new womanhood”: Cosmopolitan, November 1928, p. 21.
27 Ella May Frazer: Ella May Frazer, letter, February 26, 1983.
28 Public appearance: Putnam, Soaring Wings, 77–79.
29 Smiling: Morrissey, interview, April 20, 1983.
30 Yale University: NYT, October 21, 1928, sec. 2, p. 1.
31 Detroit Adcraft: Free Press (Detroit), October 27, 1928.
32 “I was considered important enough”: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
33 Kill Devil Hill: Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), December 18, 1928, p. 2.
34 Air tour of New York: NYT, December 26, 1928.
Chapter 8. The Vega
1 Visit to Le Roy, N.Y.: Democrat Chronicle (Rochester), January 25, 1929.
2 “a slender figure in grey chiffon”: Jane Dow Bromberg, letter, December 19, 1984.
3 “Not that I am advocating”: Free Press, April 12, 1929.
4 Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs: Letters of March 4 and 7, 1929, Earhart Collection, NASM Library.
5 “the Lindbergh line”: NYT, July 2, 1929, p. 2.
6 TAT’s first flight west: NYT, July 8, 1929, p. 1.
7 TAT itinerary: NYT, July 9, 1929, p. 3.
8 “very likeable”: Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, 52.
9 “a matter of a weekend”: LAT, July 9, 1929, sec. 2, p. 1.
10 Free publicity: LAT, July 13, 1929, sec. 2, p. 5.
11 “the mind of a woman”: Sportsman Pilot, August 1929, p. 48.
12 “the sex line washed out”: Free Press, April 12, 1929.
13 Colonial Transport: NYT, February 6, 1929, p. 15.
14 “she took a few flights”: Express (San Antonio), March 10, 1929, p. 22.
15 Aviation Bureau: National Archives, RG 237 805, Washington, D.C.
16 Fourth woman to hold transport license: NYT, March 29, 1929, p. 16.
17 New York to Washington: Washington Post, March 20, 1929, p. 22.
18 Violent thunderstorm: News (Buffalo), March 29, 1929, p. 18.
19 Consolidated Aircraft: ibid., March 27, 1929, p. 18.
20 Flying with Leigh Wade: Maj. Gen. Leigh Wade (ret.), interview, January 14, 1985.
21 Flying with Elinor Smith: Smith, Aviatrix, 93–94.
22 Smith’s opinions of Putnam and the Vega: ibid., 69–74, 93–94.
23 Flying with Ralph DeVore: Plain Dealer (Cleveland), May 14, 1929, p. 1.
24 Muriel’s marriage: Herald (Boston), June 30, 1929, p. 47.
25 Purchasing the Vega: Herbert Bowen, interview, January 14, 1984, sales records, Lockheed Corporation, Burbank, California; R. S. Allen, letter, May 27, 1985; Harvey C. Christen, interview, October 26, 1985.
26 Flying to Chatauqua: Chatauqua Daily, July 22, 1929, p. 1.
27 Flying the Vega for the first time: Ben O. Howard, COHC, vol. 2, pt. 2, p. 66.
28 Broadcast to Byrd: Post Dispatch, August 3, 1929, p. 5.
29 Leaving for Los Angeles, LAT, August 8, 1929, pt. 2, p. 10.
30 Stephens’s crash: Republican (Phoenix), August 12, 1929, p. 4.
31 Trading the Vega: Christen, interview.
Chapter 9. Losing and Leading
1 Protest: NYT, June 12, 1929, p. 28.
2 Signing up for derby: NYT, July 25, 1929, p. 16.
3 Powder Puff Derby: LAT, August 19, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
4 Setting records: LAT, August 15, 1929, pt. 2, p. 2.
5 National network hookup: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
6 Start of the derby: LAT, August 16, 1929, p. 8.
7 Starting lineup: LAT, August 19, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
8 From Calexico to Yuma: NYT, August 20, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
9 Landing at Phoenix: LAT, August 20, 1929, pt. 2, p. 2.
10 “Instead I struck sand”: Arizona Republic, August 20, 1929, p. 1.
11 Crosson, Trout, Rasche, Fahy: LAT, August 20, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
12 Cleaning goggles: LAT, August 21, 1929.
13 Kunz, Haizlip, Keith-Miller: LAT, August 20, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
14 Crosson, Walker, Noyes, Keith-Miller: LAT, August 21, 1929, p. 1.
15 Barnes, Noyes: NYT, August 23, 1929, p. 3.
16 Perry: LAT, August 24, 1929, p. 1.
17 Banquet: ibid.
18 Haizlip: NYT, August 25, 1929, p. 1.
19 Fried chicken: Plain Dealer, August 26, 1929, p. 1.
20 Servicing planes: Woman’s Journal, October 1929, pp. 10–11, 18, 26.
21 Fabric-covered aircraft: Plain Dealer, August 26, 1929, p. 1.
22 Prize money: Plain Dealer, August 27, 1929, p. 1.
23 “There are two Great Lakes airplanes”: Noyes, COHC, vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 13.
24 Turning at markers: NYT, August 28, 1929, p. 1.
25 Competitive spirit: Edna Gardner Whyte, interview, January 24, 1984.
26 Haizlip: Mary Haizlip, interview, January 13, 1984.
27 “she kept her wits about her”: Hawks, Speed, 260–86.
28 Amelia’s hotel suite: Smith, Aviatrix, 141.
29 Women pilots’
organization: Nichols, Wings for Life, 96–97.
30 “She seemed apologetic”: Nancy Hopkins Tier, interview, September 24, 1984.
31 Charter member: Gentry, Hangar Flying.
32 The Ninety-Nines: History of the Ninety-Nines.
33 Haizlip: Haizlip, interview.
34 American Women’s Club: Cochran Papers, DDEL, Ninety-Nines Series, Box 6.
35 Neva Paris: NYT, January 10, 1930, p. 1.
36 National Air Races: Ninety-Nines Archives.
37 “the gentler sex”: Pittsburgh Press, June 29, 1930, automotive sec., p. 8.
38 Refuses to compete: NYT, August 6, 1930, p. 14.
39 “in order to reach some agreement”: ibid.
40 Constitutional committee: Newsletter, September 1930, Ninety-Nines Archives.
41 Licensed women pilots: Herald and Examiner, August 24, 1930, p. 5.
Chapter 10. Reaching the Limits
1 Traveling on business: Chronicle and News (Allentown, Pa.), November 5, 1929.
1 Madduxes: John L. Maddux, interview, June 4, 1985.
2 Total time to date: R. S. Allen, letter.
3 Flight records: ibid.
4 Women’s speed record: LAT, November 21, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
5 Breaking women’s speed record: R. S. Allen, letter.
6 Fastest lap: LAT, November 25, 1929, pt. 2, p. 2.
7 “You will please advise”: Letter, March 1, 1930, Earhart Collection, NASM Library.
8 Lindbergh’s Sirius: LAT, November 20, 1929, pt. 2, p. 1.
9 Trial flights: R. S. Allen, letter.
10 “an amazing person”: Lindbergh, Hour of Gold, 102.
11 “a fine courage”: Earhart, Fun of It, 174–75.
12 “During our explanation”: ibid.
13 Lindbergh’s jokes: Putnam, Soaring Wings, 183–84.
14 Maddux: Maddux, interview.
15 “when he comes through”: Journal (Albuquerque), January 11, 1930, p. 14.
16 Return to New York: LAT, January 11, 1930, p. 5.
17 “to keep out of Albert’s way”: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
18 “I’m long on friends”: Morrissey, Courage Is the Price, 175.
19 “I’m afraid Dad may not enjoy”: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
20 Stock market crash: NYT, October 25, 1929, p. 1.
21 Letter to Amy: SLRC, 83 M-69 F. 8.
22 “A Guernsey cow”: NYT, February, 19, 1930, p. 19.