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- Navigators & Inventors: Amelia Earhart
Earhart's lack of familiarity with the Bendix radio direction finder was a significant liability.
Earhart used an antenna similar to this later model in her attempt to locate Howland Island.
The Azores have long been a popular way station for transatlantic flights.
Matthew Fontaine Maury is the father of modern hydrography in the United States Navy.
Elder’s intended course and where she actual ended up were considerably different.
U.S. Navy hydrographers computed an alternate course for Elder and Haldeman after they disappeared.
They vanished in the South Pacific on June 2, 1937.
Ruth Elder poses in a publicity still for Universal’s “Winged Horseman” (1929) while holding a model evocative of her transatlantic Stinson.
Amelia Earhart was busy in May 1937 repairing her crash-damaged Lockeed Electra 10E.
Weems had just trained famed British aviator Amy Johnson in celestial navigation.