VIEWS EARHART PLANE (Logansport [IN] Press, Friday, 8/21/36)
Los Angeles, Aug. 20 (AP) —Dr. Edward C. Elliott, president of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., arrived today to inspect the $80,000 "flying laboratory" which Amelia Earhart, aviatrix, will use in experimental flights. The institution will sponsor her experimental work. (An undated UP [sic, i.e. not AP] photo of AE with Elliott was published in the 8/27/36 Berkeley [CA] Daily Gazette: "Dr. Elliot [sic] visited the "classroom" at Burbank, Calif.")
No mention of AE in the on-line newspaper archive during the period between 8/20 and 8/29.
Many articles in Associated Press-affiliated newspapers document the trip from Burbank to New York:
MISS EARHART LEAVES WEST FOR NEW YORK (Biloxi Daily Herald, Saturday, August 29, 1936)
Burbank, Calif., Aug. 29—(AP)—Amelia Earhart took off at 7:34 a.m. (10:34 Eastern Standard Time,) today in her new "flying laboratory" bound for New York
and the start of the trans-continental Bendix trophy race Sept. 4. Miss Earhart plans to make her first stop at Kansas City where Paul Mantz, her technical advisor, will leave the plane and return to Los Angeles. The third passenger aboard the big $100,000 transport sponsored by Purdue University was C. Mc-
Nieley [sic], mechanic. The lateness of Miss Earhart's hopoff this morning apparently precluded an attempt at speed records.
[Landed Kansas City 5:40 p.m. Aug. 29 after non-stop flight from Burbank. Both motors were leaking oil and mechanics were seeking the cause. One or possibly two stops planned on flight to New York August 30. (Jefferson City [MO] Sunday News and Tribune, 8/30/36)]
[Cleveland, Aug. 30 (AP) - landed Cleveland 7:30 pm EST 8/30/36.]
Cleveland, Aug. 31 (AP) - took off today for New York in her "flying laboratory" plane, after an unexpected stop here yesterday for work on the plane's motor.
Amelia Earhart Reaches New York
BROOKLYN. Aug. 31.—(AP)—Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam arrived at Floyd Bennett airfield at 9 a.m., (CST) today after a flight of two hours, 15 minutes from Cleveland. She is an entrant in the Bendlx air race which will be flown from New York to Los Angeles Sept. 4.
Dan Brown, #2408