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-H-irV i i i . Till HOwLAND ISLAND ta circle globe. Miss Eafort's heavily laden Lockheed rumbles down runwaj. leaving America forever. Challenged the Skies hy Jack Pilmaii The radio receiver at th Hono lulu Ngvy Base crackled nd sputtered. Then, faintly, came thesf ominous ords: "Circling . . . cannot gee island. G$$ running low." This was the last that wa3vr heard ftW the twin-engin Iwkhefid that vgnistied over the Pacific jugt 20 year gu this wet with lar?, freclto fared aviatrix named Amelia Eerhert. ffith her as copilot and ftavigator in On attempt to circle the golJ Was veteran flyer Fred Noonan. The island they wei liXifcing fo WeS 9 gjfjc of soil and coral called How laid, halfway across the Pacific and just north of the equator. The? were to refuel tho.c after flying, 2,500 miles (nan Lac. New Guinea. 0 But no trai-e of thorn 01? their craft Was ewer found- No floisam, ao Jetsam. Their dbappcaionce was total and totally mystifying Theic wore sunie who wondorert whjn the nittlu was undertaken in tho first ola.e Tl.ey were the skeptirs whu hd always maintained that Amelia W8 no mrc than a ".stunt-flying tad" For her part, it had beeto ewniffh to i-cply that she flew lciause it W fun and what other iasm was needed? Somct.n.cs she would add that flying provided bright, adventure and; new experiences. After holding a pilot s license fee some Aniel,a Eai'barl bust up(,n he world nc day in June, 302& when shc became the first woman to Ity the Atiantie Occan-as passenger. The -erne journey tramrormca lice into i'afoii hexume;, a, sUtu he flevc ,.oliqM.shed and'did much id emhcfllsh., In the nine years following her At lantic flight, she chalked up more avi ation "firsts" than any female flier before or since, including the first at tempted world flight by a woman. Added to these laurels were the ii)c- over the Parififi 20 years ago this r&, 4mlH Earkart'e jHfiltg) ords she set. At one tim (site coold claim, with official support, four irk& three for speed and one for ditAit.-8. The latter still stands, as docs ceB speed record, although only because it cate gory was officially discontinued while) she still held it. The wiry girl from AtchifeOV Re, lovfcd a challenge not for it oam Oiktev but because she delighted in (kiing and, fetxiOnplishing SiiO imiri couldn't Kirie anything te. She crowded into he lifetime aciiiUe ranginj from trial work end a Un e a nwae'a ttd, to designing! dressea. teatiung at major uru veraity , and' being an airline executive. Only. some of these activities were tackled for the money, but all were entered into with zest. Amelia's second Atlantic crossing, this time solo, was made in 1932, the year after she married book publisher George Palmer Putnam. Her most ac tive year in the air was 1935. In a four month span she made headline-exciting trips from Hawaii to the mainland; Burbank, Calif., to Mexico City, and from there to Newark, N. J. Some years later her husband wrote: "I believe that apart from and probably much more important to her than the reasons she gave, these flights repre sented for her the chance to be again in that universe aloft where, in a sense, she really lived." The fatal world flight, according to Putnam, had been her "life's dream." If either one faced the prospect with anxiety, it probably wasn't Amelia. To fret, she often told her husband, was to add still another hazard. Prince Hamlet, she felt, "would have been a bad aviator he worried too much!" After 6? shakedown trip from Cali fornia (which actually constituted the first leg of the journey), the globe circling adventure began from Miami on June 1, 1937, over a route eastward that stayed close to the equator. 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