The Fun of It
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THE FUN OF IT
A. E.
THE FUN OF IT
RANDOM RECORDS OF MY OWN FLYING AND OF WOMEN IN AVIATION
By
AMELIA EARHART
With 31 Illustrations
Harcourt Brace and Company
New York
Copyright, 1932, by
AMELIA EARHART
First Printing
Second Printing
Third Printing
Fourth Printing
Fifth Printing
Sixth Printing
Seventh Printing
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO., INC.
BUILDERS OF BOOKS
BRIDGEPORT. CONN.
To the
Ninety Nines
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| A. E. | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Where A. E. First Worked with Engines | 22 |
| Cockpit and Instrument Board of a Fully Equipped Mad Plane | 23 |
| Flying Maneuvers | 38 |
| Flying Maneuvers | 39 |
| The Friendship | 54 |
| Interior of a Modern Transport Plane | 55 |
| Mountains of the Upper Air | 70 |
| One of Pan American’s Clipper Ships | 71 |
| A Typical Department of Commerce Beacon | 86 |
| Checkered Countryside | 87 |
| Three Vice-presidents | 102 |
| In the Cockpit of her Lockheed-Vega | 103 |
| Looking Down on an Aircraft Carrier | 118 |
| Where the Wrights First Flew | 119 |
| A Burgess-Wright Biplane | 124 |
| A Pitcairn Autogiro | 125 |
| A. E., and Her “Flying Bill-board” | 128 |
| Louise Thaden | 129 |
| Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh | 134 |
| Three Stages of a Parachute Jump | 135 |
| Ruth Law Greeted by General Leonard Wood | 150 |
| Katherine Stinson | 151 |
| Ruth Nichols | 166 |
| Ballooning in Germany | 167 |
| Harriet Quimby | 182 |
| Publicizing an Early Flyer | 183 |
| Madame Blanchard | 198 |
| A Pioneer Aircraft Factory | 199 |
| An Artist’s Warning to Early Aeronauts | 206 |
| No Fete was Complete without its Aeronaut | 207 |
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