Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Amelia

On this day in 1928 Amelia Earhart and her team departed Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m, landing at Burry Port (near Llanelli), Wales, United Kingdom, exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes later. It was the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman.

2 comments:

  1. I like your choice of music!

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  2. This is a favourite of mine. Glad to have a context for posting it.

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