Film of AE flying Autogyro rediscovered in Texas

[Matt Revington]

https://www.fox7austin.com/video/838521

She looks tired and dirty after flying that thing

[Ric Gillespie]

That had to be in July 1931. In June, on her way back east after failing to set a record for the fastest westbound transcontinental autogyro flight, she wrecked the aircraft in a takeoff accident in Abilene, Texas.  Pitcairn quickly provided her with a new machine.  Dallas, 180 miles east of Abilene, would be her first stop in the notoriously short-range auto-gyro. She wrecked that aircraft later that month arriving back in New Jersey.  She totaled a third autogyro in September in a landing accident in Detroit.

[Bruce Thomas]

And another newspaper picks up the story of the rediscovered film. OMG. Who pays these writers to turn out drivel so full of factual errors?

Was it on a tiny, uninhabited island she was forced to land on when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, ran into trouble during their transatlantic flight?

There are some who believe Earhart survived after her plane crashed on July 2nd , 1937, as she attempted the very first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.