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<div class="images-v2-count-3"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-57351"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image"> <a href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Faviation-history-august-25-1932-earhart-sets-woman-s-distance-record%3Futm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_campaign%3DShare%20to%20facebook' target="_blank" class='social-share-button facebook-share-button'><i class="fa fa-facebook-f"></i></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Aviation+History+-+August+25%2C+1932+-+Earhart+sets+woman%27s+distance+record&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Faviation-history-august-25-1932-earhart-sets-woman-s-distance-record&amp;via=RallyPoint" target="_blank" class="social-share-button twitter-custom-share-button"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a> <a href="mailto:?subject=Check this out on RallyPoint!&body=Hi, I thought you would find this interesting:%0D%0AAviation History - August 25, 1932 - Earhart sets woman&#39;s distance record%0D%0A %0D%0AHere is the link: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/aviation-history-august-25-1932-earhart-sets-woman-s-distance-record" target="_blank" class="social-share-button email-share-button"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a> </div> <a class="fancybox" rel="ef0eec8c18113bb43f5c83956704cd39" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/351/for_gallery_v2/cef4c976.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/351/large_v3/cef4c976.jpg" alt="Cef4c976" /></a></div><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-2" id="image-57352"><a class="fancybox" rel="ef0eec8c18113bb43f5c83956704cd39" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/352/for_gallery_v2/22b79be8.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/352/thumb_v2/22b79be8.jpg" alt="22b79be8" /></a></div><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-3" id="image-57353"><a class="fancybox" rel="ef0eec8c18113bb43f5c83956704cd39" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/353/for_gallery_v2/ddc87be3.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/057/353/thumb_v2/ddc87be3.jpg" alt="Ddc87be3" /></a></div></div>24–25 August 1932: Amelia Earhart flew her Lockheed Model 5B Vega, NR7952, from Los Angeles, California to Newark, New Jersey, a distance of 3,939.25 kilometers (2,447.74 miles), in 19 hours, 5 minutes. She had departed Los Angeles Municipal Airport (now known as LAX) at 7:26:54 p.m. Pacific Time, 24 August, and landed at Newark Municipal Airport at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time the following day. This set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) women’s World Record for Distance in a Straight Line Without Landing. He average speed for the flight was 206.42 kilometers per hour (128.27 miles per hour). She was the first woman to fly solo coast-to-coast. Less than a year later, she broke her own record by almost two hours.

2015-08-25T15:25:20-04:00 2015-08-25T15:25:20-04:00 SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL 917418

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Thanks for the historical perspective update.

2015-08-25T15:26:15-04:00 2015-08-25T15:26:15-04:00 MSgt Curtis Ellis 917768

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One of my many aviation heroes!

2015-08-25T17:49:01-04:00 2015-08-25T17:49:01-04:00 Sgt Kelli Mays 917905

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I wonder what happened to her.

2015-08-25T19:01:53-04:00 2015-08-25T19:01:53-04:00 Sgt Kelli Mays 917906

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I wonder what happened to her. I wonder if she'll ever be found?

2015-08-25T19:02:05-04:00 2015-08-25T19:02:05-04:00 PV2 Private RallyPoint Member 917970

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Love this! Just this past March I had friends in from Germany and took them to the Air and Space Museum here in DC. They loved it. We really enjoyed the exhibit on Amelia Earhart. Thank you for sharing this!

2015-08-25T19:27:33-04:00 2015-08-25T19:27:33-04:00 SSgt Alex Robinson 917985

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Great post!

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