Here’s a story I didn’t tell about that first attempt at flying around the world:

When the Electra splashed through the puddles of the Oakland, California airport’s runaway and lifted into the air on March 17, 1937, Amelia Earhart believed she was on her way to Howland Island. Sure, she had to stop in Honolulu first. But then she planned to wing her across the 2,556 mile to Howland. Already the Coast Guard cutter, Duane, waited in the waters offshore the island while construction crews scramb...