Famous Flyers

r surprise for the company. "Did it ever occur to you that there are famous

o telling stories about wom

neglected," said his mother. "After all, when

ourse, being a woman yourself, you can't enter our story-telling contest, but

that I won't," she said. "But I will. I'v

said Bob. "You're be

ng. They are that oddly-assorted group-tall, slender, boyish Amelia Earhart, who's Amelia Earhart Putnam, now; little Elinor Smith, who doesn't weigh

that she should make her flight on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight to Europe, because she's always been called the Lady Lindy. She looks like him, you know-long, lean,

real pioneer-she must have adventure and excitement in life-that's why she gave up social service work, and made flying her profession. It wasn't easy for her to learn to fly-she just had evenings and Sundays to get in her practice flights, but she stuck to it, and f

, with no thought of turning back, in spite of decided defects in her motor that

hours, she met with the same terrifying flying conditions that her solo predecessor, Lindbergh, had. Fog enveloped her plane. She could not see in front of her, or to either side. Ice formed on the wings of her plane, and threatened to break t

lown without one, and now she realized the hazards of not knowing how high she was flying through the fog. Sometimes she wou

ce five miles from Londonderry. She landed in a field, scaring a team of plow horses, who had never before seen a woman landing

cepted the acclaim that was showered upon her. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, but not only that, she had set a new speed record for the North Atlantic Ocean, flying a distance of 2,

out. She was graduated from Wellesley College, and was a member of the Junior League, which rates her pretty high in the social scale, but her overwhelming desire for adventure and pioneering, led her, as it led Amelia Earhart, to choose aviation a

r 'the headless pilot.' It was a funny sight to see a plane land gracefully on a field apparently with no one to guide it. Then out would pop Elinor, a grimy little girl, covered with grease from the motor, and with a cheerful grin on her impish face. It was Elinor, who at seventeen, set the women's solo endurance record by staying in the

that it was flying that would express her best. So she went to a government-approved school, and became an expert, daring flyer. She is the holder of the record for loop-the-loo

t gives you an idea," she said,

said Mrs. Gregg. "They stay home and wait while the men

Bob. "What about Mr. Putnam, who waited

id Mrs. Gregg. Then she added, "It's getti

ut across the gar