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* Fits with [[2-6-S-18]]. | * Fits with [[2-6-S-18]]. | ||
"Tall and slight, with sun-tanned complexion, tousled hair, and a ready smile, [[Mrs. Putnam]] was dressed in long brown slacks and an open-necked checked shirt. Her navigator, Captain Fred J. Noonan, began to move from the cockpit of the machine--'the flying laboratory'--as the engines were shut off. But Mrs. Putnam pulled him back. Then, nonchalantly producing a puff, she powdered her nose before stepping out of the cockpit to wave cheerily to the crowd. Her slide down the wing to the ground followed"[http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11075420?searchTerm=Mrs+Putnam+Darwin] | From a newspaper account of [[AE|Earhart's]] arrival in Darwin, 29 June 1937: "Tall and slight, with sun-tanned complexion, tousled hair, and a ready smile, [[Mrs. Putnam]] was dressed in long brown slacks and an open-necked checked shirt. Her navigator, Captain Fred J. Noonan, began to move from the cockpit of the machine--'the flying laboratory'--as the engines were shut off. But Mrs. Putnam pulled him back. Then, nonchalantly producing a puff, she powdered her nose before stepping out of the cockpit to wave cheerily to the crowd. Her slide down the wing to the ground followed"[http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/11075420?searchTerm=Mrs+Putnam+Darwin] | ||
It appears that [[Earhart]] was still carrying a compact at this point in the [[Second attempt|World Flight]]--four days before the [[fatal flight|takeoff from Lae]] on 2 July 1937. | It appears that [[Earhart]] was still carrying a compact at this point in the [[Second attempt|World Flight]]--four days before the [[fatal flight|takeoff from Lae]] on 2 July 1937. | ||
Revision as of 14:24, 9 June 2010
- A small, thin shard of flat glass with a beveled edge found in 2007 during Niku V.
- Fits with 2-6-S-18.
From a newspaper account of Earhart's arrival in Darwin, 29 June 1937: "Tall and slight, with sun-tanned complexion, tousled hair, and a ready smile, Mrs. Putnam was dressed in long brown slacks and an open-necked checked shirt. Her navigator, Captain Fred J. Noonan, began to move from the cockpit of the machine--'the flying laboratory'--as the engines were shut off. But Mrs. Putnam pulled him back. Then, nonchalantly producing a puff, she powdered her nose before stepping out of the cockpit to wave cheerily to the crowd. Her slide down the wing to the ground followed"[1]
It appears that Earhart was still carrying a compact at this point in the World Flight--four days before the takeoff from Lae on 2 July 1937.
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