EARHART, AMELIA. Five partly printed receipts signed (three "Amelia Earhart," two "A. Earhart"), variously dated: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1 June; n.d. [but San Juan, similar date]; Singapore, 20 June; Bangkok, 20 June; and Lae, [New Guinea], 30 June 1937; each one page, small 4to, or oblong, all but one signed in pencil, on printed forms accomplished in manuscript (one typewritten), one with minor dampstain, two with corner torn away with slight loss. AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT Five remarkable documents from several of the refueling stops made by Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator, on their celebrated last flight. Their flight, in a twin-engined Lockheed Vega, was conceived as a circumnavigation at the equatorial latitude in a series of hops. The first attempt failed and the aircraft was damaged on take-off from Honolulu; after repairs, she and Noonan set out again from Miami, this time flying from west to east. San Juan was their first landing site and one of the present receipts records the purchase there of 87 octane aviation gasoline. Twenty days later, at Bangkok, as recorded by the typed invoice of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, the aircraft took on 1515 liters of "Stanavo Aviation Gasoline"; later that same day, having reached Bangkok, 256 gallons were taken on board. The most compelling document, though, is the June 30 receipt from the Vacuum Oil Pty. Ltd. for the sum of $2 sterling for "advance a/c Lae Expenses," probably settling a small discrepancy in the Earhart account. Lae was an outpost on the coast of New Guinea, 200 miles north of Port Moresby, and was the jumping-off point for the longest and most dangerous leg of Earhart's flight: 2,570 miles, mostly over water, to Howland Island. The following day, July 1, at noon, Earhart's plane took off from the Lae airstrip. On July 2, two brief radio messages were received. Nothing further was heard and the fate of the two aviators remains unknown to this day (new findings may indicate they crashed and eventually died on a remote island, Nikomororo). (5)
EARHART, AMELIA. Five partly printed receipts signed (three "Amelia Earhart," two "A. Earhart"), variously dated: San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1 June; n.d. [but San Juan, similar date]; Singapore, 20 June; Bangkok, 20 June; and Lae, [New Guinea], 30 June 1937; each one page, small 4to, or oblong, all but one signed in pencil, on printed forms accomplished in manuscript (one typewritten), one with minor dampstain, two with corner torn away with slight loss. AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT Five remarkable documents from several of the refueling stops made by Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her navigator, on their celebrated last flight. Their flight, in a twin-engined Lockheed Vega, was conceived as a circumnavigation at the equatorial latitude in a series of hops. The first attempt failed and the aircraft was damaged on take-off from Honolulu; after repairs, she and Noonan set out again from Miami, this time flying from west to east. San Juan was their first landing site and one of the present receipts records the purchase there of 87 octane aviation gasoline. Twenty days later, at Bangkok, as recorded by the typed invoice of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, the aircraft took on 1515 liters of "Stanavo Aviation Gasoline"; later that same day, having reached Bangkok, 256 gallons were taken on board. The most compelling document, though, is the June 30 receipt from the Vacuum Oil Pty. Ltd. for the sum of $2 sterling for "advance a/c Lae Expenses," probably settling a small discrepancy in the Earhart account. Lae was an outpost on the coast of New Guinea, 200 miles north of Port Moresby, and was the jumping-off point for the longest and most dangerous leg of Earhart's flight: 2,570 miles, mostly over water, to Howland Island. The following day, July 1, at noon, Earhart's plane took off from the Lae airstrip. On July 2, two brief radio messages were received. Nothing further was heard and the fate of the two aviators remains unknown to this day (new findings may indicate they crashed and eventually died on a remote island, Nikomororo). (5)
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