Amelia Earhart tests out a rubber life raft before setting off on her record-breaking solo Hawaii to California flight.

She planned to survive on tomato juice, chocolate and malted milk tablets until she was rescued.  She didn't need any of it. BTW, malted milk was not considered a candy at that time.

 https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2024/03/emergency-supplies-for-aviator.html

Amelia Earhart christening an Essex Terraplane on stage... first new to me Amelia Earhart photo I've come across in years

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/507/

yet again, a wld goose chase for Amelia Earhart's crash site

Purdue University and Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) are heading to the South Pacific attempting to solve the disappearance of Amelia Earhart 88 years ago,  to determine if a visual anomaly in a lagoon of Nikumaroro Island is Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra 10E.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/one-month-out-countdown-to-the-search-for-amelia-earharts-plane-begins/

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/amelia-earhart-plane-likely-located-taraia-object-nikumaroro-researchers

the coolest thing to ever happen to this air port hanger/service station was caught on camera... if cameras weren't there to record it for posterity, history books sure wouldn't have known.

 https://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2024/11/thompson-aircraft-service-center.html

Before doing much flying, Amelia Earhart first drove across country with her mother in a Kissel Goldbug she called "the Yellow Peril"

In February 1918, Earhart left Ogontz School and moved to Toronto to become a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at the Spadina Military Convalescent Hospital. 

While in Toronto, she began frequenting a local airfield, and soon became fascinated with flying. Following the Armistice in November 1918, she returned to the United States and entered Columbia University as a pre-medical student in the fall of 1919. Earhart soon realized that the practical aspects of medicine did not appeal to her, and left Columbia in 1920 to join her parents in Los Angeles, in an effort to help keep their marriage intact. 

In December 1920, she took her first ride in an airplane with pilot Frank Hawks. In January 1921, she began taking flying lessons from Anita ("Neta") Snook. With help from her family, she took a job in a telephone company and bought her first airplane.

 In 1922, she set her first aviation record with an unofficial women's altitude record of 14,000 feet under the auspices of the Aero Club of Southern California. 

The following March, Earhart appeared as one of the attractions at a local air rodeo and in May 1923 she acquired her airline pilot's license. She was the first woman, and seventeenth pilot, to receive a National Aeronautic Association pilot's license. 

Despite Earhart's efforts, her father's alcoholism, combined with her parents' inability to manage money, eventually led to the divorce of Edwin and Amy Earhart in 1924. Following her parents' divorce, Earhart sold her airplane and bought a Kissel roadster car she called the "Yellow Peril."

 In June 1924, she drove cross-country with her mother from Los Angeles to Medford, Massachusetts, in order to move back to where they'd come from and had family, stopping along the way to visit several national parks.

Packing their belongings, mother and daughter drove up the west coast to Washington state, and then on into Canada to visit Banff and Lake Louise. The roads outside of major cities at this time were at best dirt wagon trails for agricultural use, and so road signs were awful as well. 

Their trip coursed down through Chicago and on east to Boston. All along the way they were mobbed by curiosity-seekers and well-wishers seeking information about their trip. Any trip was an adventure, and women in a bright yellow car were an event wherever they stopped

https://www.classicspeedsters.com/blog/2019/5/22/amelia-earhart-and-her-kissel-gold-bug-speedster

https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/agents/people/1133?&filter_fields[]=subjects&filter_values[]=Black-and-white+photographs

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/09/04/the-forney-museum-is-worth-getting-around-to/

NC10780 was sold to George Palmer Putnam, husband of Amelia Earhart, of New York, NY in May 1931, he sold it to Beech-Nut Packing Company two months later, Earhart continued to fly it for company promotions, when they sponsored Earhart’s early flights

Among other products, the Beech-Nut company manufactured Beech-Nut chewing gum, which was supplied in bulk to Earhart for distribution to the crowds who gathered to witness her cross country landings. (Charter member of 99's) https://iwasm.omeka.net/items/show/1297

 It was painted green (the cream panel remained), with “BEECH-NUT” painted large upon its flanks.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/with/4729083504/
https://dmairfield.org/airplanes/NC10780/index.html

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/earhart-once-piloted-across-wyoming

The Kansas native with a penchant for “first-time things” and a love of “shining adventure,” as she called it, flew an autogiro across the country in June 1931, stopping at Cheyenne, Laramie, Parco (present Sinclair), Rock Springs and Le Roy, Wyo., west of Fort Bridger.

 Earhart wanted to set a transcontinental record in the awkward-looking craft, which resembled a fixed-wing propeller plane with an engine on the front, but was equipped also with four long rotor blades that spun at 100 revolutions per minute –much slower than the 400 revolutions per minute of modern light helicopters—above the open cockpit. 

The 52-gallon fuel capacity of the rotorcraft, dubbed the “flying windmill” by the press, made frequent stops necessary. Amelia made time to visit with local dignitaries and give flight demonstrations. She charmed the crowds who greeted her on the ground.

On the tour, she stopped in 76 towns during about three weeks of traveling. She flew an average speed of 80 mph, about five hours daily, often landing 10 times in a day. She became the first pilot to fly an autogiro round-trip across the United States.

http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/Amelia-Earhart-Autogiro.htm

https://waterandpower.org/museum/Aviation_in_Early_LA_(Page_2).html

She bought a canary-colored Kissel Kar automobile, which she named Yellow Peril, and made a 7,000-mile cross-country trek with her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, visiting several national parks en route.