Amelia Earhart accepted an invitation from the Mexican government to do a goodwill flight from New York to Mexico City. She took off from Burbank but had engine trouble and landed on a farm before continuing on. Upon arriving in Mexico City, she was presented with a medal and had to postpone her departure for two weeks due to issues with elevation. To help fund the flight, stamps with her name were sold. Later, Earhart expressed a desire to attempt a world flight and began modifying her plane for the challenge.
Amelia Earhart accepted an invitation from the Mexican government to do a goodwill flight from New York to Mexico City. She took off from Burbank but had engine trouble and landed on a farm before continuing on. Upon arriving in Mexico City, she was presented with a medal and had to postpone her departure for two weeks due to issues with elevation. To help fund the flight, stamps with her name were sold. Later, Earhart expressed a desire to attempt a world flight and began modifying her plane for the challenge.
Amelia Earhart accepted an invitation from the Mexican government to do a goodwill flight from New York to Mexico City. She took off from Burbank but had engine trouble and landed on a farm before continuing on. Upon arriving in Mexico City, she was presented with a medal and had to postpone her departure for two weeks due to issues with elevation. To help fund the flight, stamps with her name were sold. Later, Earhart expressed a desire to attempt a world flight and began modifying her plane for the challenge.
After a few month from her fly from Hawaii to Oakland
amelia went to a dineer in the house of a plane designer
paul Hammond. The new York times reported in march 1935 an official invitation from the government of mexico to amelia for a ”good will flight” she de3cided to fly from new York to mexico city. She left the union air terminal at Burbank, her engine had a problem and she did a land near a farm, later she restarted and after an half past hour she arrived to mexico city. She recived a medal from the mexico geography society, she must post poned the take off for two weeks because the elevation was short and the army longed it. To help the cost of the fly Putnam carried a Mexican stamps were there wrote “amelia eathart good-will flight”. On the morning of may 8 1935 doc Kimball sent the metereologic card to Putnam that in the city the weather was good amelia landed at 10:28 p.m. and she did 2,185 miles in new jersey After amelia worked for an university and she earn 2000$ year In 1935 amelia raced in to the Bendix race and she reach fifth place the winner earn 4500$ Later amelia said that she want to do a world flw and she started to modifying her plane, in 22 july 1936 she tried the first fly test in septembe she tried to win the Bendix race but her team arrived fifth