Amelia Earhardt's May 20, 1932 flight across the Atlantic solo broke more
records than just being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
She was also the first person to fly it twice. It was the longest non stop
distance flown by a woman. And she set a new record for crossing in the
shortest time. All this just 5 years after Lindbergh and with no other
successful crossing between his and hers.

Although she started in Newfoundland, it only took her less than half as
long as Lindbergh.

For info on her last flight see:
http://ellensplace.net/ae_lflt.html

Note: I don't have anything to do with this site, links on the site, or some
of the bizarre theories within, I simply stumbled upon it and found it
interesting.

--
Jim Burns III

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02...
I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better
but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-)

Why? We've decided to do a month-long radio contest in January, on our
most
popular local radio station, promoting our aviation theme inn. It's going
to be called "the '100th Anniversary of Flight Trivia Contest', sponsored
by
the Alexis Park Inn & Suites", and will run every day at prime "drive
time".
Daily winners will each receive a FREE night in one of our aviation theme
suites. (It'll be something along the lines of "the tenth correct caller
wins...)

Thus, every day, for 25 days, the announcer will ask a different aviation
trivia question that must be (a) interesting to the non-flying public, (b)
hard enough to weed out the riff-raff, and (c) easy enough so that someone
can actually win! Ideally, the questions should relate to the theme of
our suites in some way...

So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling some
questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-)

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"