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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
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Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO., INC.
BUILDERS OF BOOKS
BRIDGEPORT. CONN.

To the

Ninety Nines

CONTENTS

Growing Up Here and There	3
Aviation and I Get Together	19
When You Learn to Fly	30
Joy Hopping and Other Things	48
Across the Atlantic with the Friendship	69
Vagabonding	89
“What to Do Next?”	98
Aviation as It Is	105
“Doc” Kimball	117
Experimenting Again	128
Women and Aviation	140
We Take to the Air	152
Some Feminine Flyers	170
Twentieth Century Pioneers	180
The First Women Aeronauts	194
Air Trails of the Future	202
Across the Atlantic—Solo	209

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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