Essays Tagged: "lockheed vega"

Amelia Earhart: A biography about the woman aviator.

on--to fly solo across the Atlantic, on the fifth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's feat, flying a Lockheed Vega from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Londonderry, Ireland. That year, she received the D ... soloed from Los Angeles to Mexico City and back to Newark, N.J. In July 1936 she took delivery of a Lockheed 10E "Electra," financed by Purdue University, and started planning her round-the-world flig ...

(3 pages) 76 2 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies