THE MISSING FLIERS. U.S.Navy seaplanes, coastguard cutters and ships scoured the waters for miles around tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean where Amelia Putnam, world's ace woman flier, and her navigator, Captain Fred Noonan, were forced down in the longest leg of their attempted flight around the world at the equator. Their huge £16,000 Lockheed aeroplane, filled with the most modern flying instruments, was out of fuel and lost somewhere on the shark- infested of the vast Pacific. Mrs Putnam is pictured centre after one of her epic flights and at left is caption fred Noonan, who accompanied her. At right Mrs Putnam is pictured with her husband, George Palmer Putnam, publisher, who rarely accompained his aviatrix wife on her long-distance flights. Her machine, nick-named the “Flying Laboratory,” is Shown top as roared across the field at Oakland, California, to begin the attempted 27,000-mile world-girdling trip.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 3

THE MISSING FLIERS. U.S.Navy seaplanes, coastguard cutters a nd ships scoured the waters for miles around tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean where Amelia Putnam, world's ace woman flier, and her navigator, Captain Fred Noonan, were forced down in the longest leg of their attempted flight around the world at the equator . Their huge £16,000 Lockheed aeroplane, filled with the most modern flying instruments, was out of fuel and lost somewhere on the shark- infested of the vast Pacific. Mrs Putnam is pictured centre after one of her epic flights and at left is caption fred Noonan, who accompanied her. At right Mrs Putnam is pictured with her husband, George Palmer Putnam, pu blisher, who rarely accompained his aviatrix wife on her long-distance flights. Her machine, nick-named the “Flying Laboratory,” is S how n top as ro ared across the field at Oakland, California, to begin the attempted 27,000-mile world-girdling trip.