SOLO WORLD FLIGHT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 11

SOLO WORLD FLIGHT

University Provides Funds For Mrs. Putnam SPECIALLY-BUILT PLANE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Co) yright. (Received May 14, 7.50 p.m.) Los Angeles, May 13. it is announced that Purdue University has provided a 50.000-dollar fund to enable Mrs. Amelia Earheart Putnam to make a solo world flight in a specially-built aeroplane, which will be ready approximately on July 1. The machine will be a "flying laboratory,” equipped with a robot pilot, enabling the pilot to take observations of a scientific nature. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putuam was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eroding as> a passenger on June 17. 1928, in the Fokker which Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon flew from Trespasses' Bay, Newfoundland, to Burryport. Wales, about 2000 miles, in 20 hours 40 minutes. In May, 1932, she flew solo from Harbour Grace. Newfoundland, to Londonderry. Ireland, in a Lockheed Vega, covering 1930 miles in 15 hours 15 minutes. She used to be a school teacher, but married George Palmer Putuam, the publisher, and became aviation editor of the Cosmopolital Magazine, as well as vice-presi-dent of the Ludington Airlines and National Airways. For her second flight she received the gold medal of the National Geographic Society and the Chevalier Legion of Honour. She has written two books.