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.Yet another record had been broken, and Amelia heldanother first.ACADEMICS AND AVIATIONIn the fall of 1935, Amelia also began serving as a lecturerat Purdue University in Indiana.She served as a visiting facultymember and as a consultant to the university s career servicesfor women program.The position required her to be on campusonly a few weeks each year, but gave her an opportunity tofurther promote careers in aviation to women.Purdue had its own small airfield, as well as an aeronauticsdepartment.As Amelia discussed with the university s president,Dr.Edward Elliott, the scope of her role on campus, itbecame clear that the collaboration might provide both Ameliaand Purdue with an opportunity to focus on the potential foraviation research.Elliott began to approach friends of the The Pacific Challenge 71and was capable of traveling up to 210 miles (338 kilometers)per hour.It could seat up to 10 passengers.But there would be no additional passengers traveling onthis plane.Amelia, with the help of her adviser Paul Mantz, hadother plans for the flying laboratory. The seats would beremoved and their space occupied by auxiliary fuel tanks aswell as additional technical equipment.The plane would be outfitted to travel nearly 4,500 miles(7,242 kilometers) nonstop.Amelia was planning a new tripthis time around the world. 6Around theWorldmelia had been dreaming of a flight around the world for severalyears before she actually began serious preparations.It wouldAnot be the first such flight a U.S.Army Air Service team hadtraveled around the world in 1924, and aviator Wiley Post had madethe trip twice once in 1931 and again 1933.But Amelia wanted to be the first woman to travel around theworld.In addition, she wanted to make the trip using a differentroute from those traveled by previous aviators.In the past, the goalof those flying around the world had not merely been to make thetrip, but to make it in the fastest time.For this reason, the shortestpossible distances had been mapped out, and this had been the routethe aviators had followed.Amelia had a different idea.She decided that she would notattempt to break the existing records for the fastest trip around theglobe.Instead, she would travel the world close to the equator, the72 Around the World 73midpoint of the globe, creating the longest possible distance.Her stated goal in the trip, when she finally announced that shewas planning it, was both for her own personal desire and alsoto advance the cause of aviation by checking and reporting onhow the equipment would respond to the difficult challengessuch a long flight would create.The route she would follow soon took shape, both in herthoughts and then on paper.She would travel from Oaklandto Honolulu, then to Howland Island in the south-centralPacific, and then to Australia.Next she would fly over Indiaand on to Arabia (now Saudi Arabia), then Africa, across theSouth Atlantic and on to Brazil.The last leg of the journeywould be from Brazil to New York.George Putnam and Amelia discussed the plans for Amelia s trip around theworld in a hangar where her Lockheed Electra was being prepared for flight. 74 AMELIA EARHARTThe planning was ultimately highly critical.Each destinationwould present its own special set of challenges and circum-stances.Fuel supplies would need to be arranged ahead of time,weather conditions would have to be carefully plotted all alongthe route, suitable landing points would need to be located.Manyof the places where she would set down lacked rudimentarymaterials necessary for flying, and Amelia and her consultantswould have to prepare for many different eventualities wellbefore the plane first took off.Particular attention was given to the radio equipmentAmelia would carry on board.The radio had been a criticalfactor in the success of her flight across the Pacific, andAmelia wanted to have the latest version available for this moredifficult journey [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Yet another record had been broken, and Amelia heldanother first.ACADEMICS AND AVIATIONIn the fall of 1935, Amelia also began serving as a lecturerat Purdue University in Indiana.She served as a visiting facultymember and as a consultant to the university s career servicesfor women program.The position required her to be on campusonly a few weeks each year, but gave her an opportunity tofurther promote careers in aviation to women.Purdue had its own small airfield, as well as an aeronauticsdepartment.As Amelia discussed with the university s president,Dr.Edward Elliott, the scope of her role on campus, itbecame clear that the collaboration might provide both Ameliaand Purdue with an opportunity to focus on the potential foraviation research.Elliott began to approach friends of the The Pacific Challenge 71and was capable of traveling up to 210 miles (338 kilometers)per hour.It could seat up to 10 passengers.But there would be no additional passengers traveling onthis plane.Amelia, with the help of her adviser Paul Mantz, hadother plans for the flying laboratory. The seats would beremoved and their space occupied by auxiliary fuel tanks aswell as additional technical equipment.The plane would be outfitted to travel nearly 4,500 miles(7,242 kilometers) nonstop.Amelia was planning a new tripthis time around the world. 6Around theWorldmelia had been dreaming of a flight around the world for severalyears before she actually began serious preparations.It wouldAnot be the first such flight a U.S.Army Air Service team hadtraveled around the world in 1924, and aviator Wiley Post had madethe trip twice once in 1931 and again 1933.But Amelia wanted to be the first woman to travel around theworld.In addition, she wanted to make the trip using a differentroute from those traveled by previous aviators.In the past, the goalof those flying around the world had not merely been to make thetrip, but to make it in the fastest time.For this reason, the shortestpossible distances had been mapped out, and this had been the routethe aviators had followed.Amelia had a different idea.She decided that she would notattempt to break the existing records for the fastest trip around theglobe.Instead, she would travel the world close to the equator, the72 Around the World 73midpoint of the globe, creating the longest possible distance.Her stated goal in the trip, when she finally announced that shewas planning it, was both for her own personal desire and alsoto advance the cause of aviation by checking and reporting onhow the equipment would respond to the difficult challengessuch a long flight would create.The route she would follow soon took shape, both in herthoughts and then on paper.She would travel from Oaklandto Honolulu, then to Howland Island in the south-centralPacific, and then to Australia.Next she would fly over Indiaand on to Arabia (now Saudi Arabia), then Africa, across theSouth Atlantic and on to Brazil.The last leg of the journeywould be from Brazil to New York.George Putnam and Amelia discussed the plans for Amelia s trip around theworld in a hangar where her Lockheed Electra was being prepared for flight. 74 AMELIA EARHARTThe planning was ultimately highly critical.Each destinationwould present its own special set of challenges and circum-stances.Fuel supplies would need to be arranged ahead of time,weather conditions would have to be carefully plotted all alongthe route, suitable landing points would need to be located.Manyof the places where she would set down lacked rudimentarymaterials necessary for flying, and Amelia and her consultantswould have to prepare for many different eventualities wellbefore the plane first took off.Particular attention was given to the radio equipmentAmelia would carry on board.The radio had been a criticalfactor in the success of her flight across the Pacific, andAmelia wanted to have the latest version available for this moredifficult journey [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]