ARRIVAL AT DARWIN

Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 9

ARRIVAL AT DARWIN

MRS EARHART'S WORLD FLIGHT NEW GUINEA THE NEXT STAGE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DARWIN, June 28. Mrs Amelia Earhart, who is making a flight round the world, arrived here at 11.30 a.m. from Koepang. Local inhabitants gave Mrs Earhart and ,'her navigator, Fred Noonan, a rousing cheer. Both were looking fit. Mrs Earhart said that they had a splendid trip over the Timor Sea. In fact, the whole journey so far had been more interesting than exciting. She was taking- off at dawn for New Guinea, a distance of 1,200 miles, and thence to Howland Island, 2,250 miles away, which was the most dangerous section. Thence she would go to Honolulu and Oakland, which stages demanded expert navigation. She asked everybody to call her Amelia Earhart, not Mrs Putnam. The motive for the flight was to be the first woman to fly round the world, as, near the Equator as possible, by continuous flight. Qantas engineers, who examined the engines, described Mrs Earhart’s machine as a flying petrol tank.