How Amelia Earhart Flew Across The Atlantic 85 Years Ago Today
Amelia Earhart, 1936 Harris Ewing collection via Wikimedia Commons From the Popular Science archive, the story of Amelia Earhart's historic journey on June 17, 1928. "First Woman Flies Overseas," republished in full below, originally appeared in the September 1928 issue of Popular Science magazine. On June 17, 1928, 30-year-old Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. "The flight of the Friendship is intended to point the road toward the seaplane instead of the land plane as a means of flying across oceans, and multiple-engined planes instead of single-engined. It will help toward more comfortable flying; when women demand planes not only comfortable, but luxurious, men will build them." Those statements of Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, expressed the true importance of her recent flight, with Wilmer Stultz, pilot, and Lou Gordon, co-pilot, from Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland, to Burry Port,...