AMELIA EARHART

Aviation and Space

AMELIA EARHART AND CREW CELEBRATE AFTER COMPLETING HER HISTORIC FLIGHT

After flying across the Atlantic in June 17, 1928 aboard the “Friendship”, Amelia Earhart and her co-pilots returned to the United States aboard the S. S. President Roosevelt. This wonderful 6″ x 9″ four-page menu shows the ship on the cover. The interior has the menu for a “Complimentary Dinner Tendered in Honor of Miss Amelia Earhart, Mr. Wilmer Stultz, and Mr. Lou Gordon”. The honorees have all signed on the first page, as well as the seven “Guests” that are listed.

Also included is a two-page letter from Robert Morris to his Mother along with its original envelope. Headed; U.S.S. Colorado, July 21, 1937, he writes “I came back to the ship about 10:00 in the morning and heard that the commanding officer had received orders to leave early the next morning in search of Miss Earhart in the vicinity of Howland Island. The aviators aboard the ship and the ship’s company searched the entire area. The entire ship’s force felt confident that a diligent search had been carried out but to no avail.”

After Charles Lindberg’s solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, Amy Guest expressed interest in being the first woman to fly or be flown across the Atlantic. After deciding the trip was too perilous for her to undertake, Guest offered to sponsor the project, suggesting they find “another girl with the right image”. In April 1928, while at work, Earhart received a telephone call from Hilton A. Railey, who asked her whether she would like to fly the Atlantic. The project coordinators, including publisher and publicist George Putnam, interviewed Earhart and asked her to accompany pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot/mechanic Louis Gordon on the flight. On June 17, 1928, the team departed from Trespassy Harbour, Newfoundland, in a Fokker FIVb/3m named “Friendship” and landed at Pwll near Burry Port, South Wales, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later.

When Stultz, Gordon, and Earhart returned to the United States on July 6, they were greeted with a ticker tape parade along the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan, followed by a reception with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.

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