Earhart, who never touched the controls over the Atlantic, finally got her chance to pilot the Friendship on this last leg. After a night’s rest, the three flew on to Southampton. When the trio came ashore, some 2,000 people - nearly the entire population of Burry Port - came out to see the woman who had conquered the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart thus became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. on June 17, 1928, Originally headed for Southampton, England, but instead landed in Burry Port, South Wales, after a flight of 20 hours and 40 minutes. Earhart and the crew finally departed Trepassy, Newfoundland, at 11:40 a.m. In Newfoundland, they were delayed 13 days in departing for Great Britain, waiting for favorable weather and shedding unnecessary weight from their airplane. The party would make their way from Boston to Newfoundland and depart from there in a plane named Friendship. Her job was to keep the flight log for co-pilots Wilmer “Bill” Stultz and Louis “Slim” Gordon. “The idea of just going as ‘extra weight’ did not appeal to me at all,” she said, preferring to be at the controls rather than be a passenger, but she accepted the offer nonetheless. In April 1928 Earhart received the telephone call that would change her life: an offer to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic in an airplane. The edition with flag is limited to 150, and this one comes with the bookplate of noted collector, Margaret Hale FawcettĮarhart began flying in 1920, and set out to break flying records, breaking the women altitude record in 1922.
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