ARRIVAL AT DARWIN.
MRS PUTNAM’S FLIGHT.
DANGERS LIE AHEAD. DARWIN, June 28. Mrs Putnam arrived at 11.30 a.m. in the course of her flight round the world. Darwin residents gave her and her navigator, Mr Fred Noonan, a rousing cheer. Both were looking fit. Mrs Putnam said they had had a splendid trip over the Timor Sea, in fact the whole journey so far had been more interesting than exciting. She is taking off at dawn in the morning for Lae, New Guinea, a distance of 1200 miles, thence to Howland Island, 2250 miles, the most dangerous section, and thence to Honolulu and Oakland. These stages demand expert navigation. She asked that everybody call her Amelia Earliart, not Mrs Putnam.Her motive was to be the first woman to fly round the world as near the Equator as possible. Qantas Airways engineers who examined the engines of the ’plane described her machine as a “flying petrol tank.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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156ARRIVAL AT DARWIN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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