SIGNAL HONOURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 9

SIGNAL HONOURS

MISS JEAN BATTEN. RECOGNITION OF FLIGHTS. AWARDS FOR 1935. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 15, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, May 14. For her South Atlantic flight this year, Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand aviatrix, has been awarded the Royal Aero Club’s Britannia Trophy for 1935 for the most meritorious performance of the year, also the Harman International Aviatrix Trophy lor 1935, adjudicated by the World-wide League International Des Aviateurs in recognition of having done the most to advance aviation. The latter awarded will be conferred publicly, together with the gold medal of the patron, the King of Belgians. WORLD SOLO FLIGHT. MRS PUTNAM’S PROPOSAL. LOS ANGELES, Mav 13. It is announced that Purdue University has provided a 50,000-dollar fund to enable Mrs Amelia Earhart 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 Putnam was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, crossing as a passenger on June 17, 1928, in the Fokker which Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon flew from Trespassey Bay (Newfoundland) to Burryport (Wales) about 2000 miles, in 2d hours 40 minutes. In May, 1932, she flew also 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 Putnam, the publisher.