Dear all,

Recently inherited “Soaring Wings” by Geoge Palmer Putnam. A biography of Ameila Earhart.

Amelia Earhart visited England.  Did she come to Brooklands, does anyone know?

NickB

There’s an article in a June 3rd 1932 edition of Flight where the Deputy Master of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators welcomed her to Brooklands as an honarary member of the GUild.

Elsewhere in that edition it states that she luncheoned at Heston and was then flown to the Brooklands air display by Mr Selfridge, who later flew her back to Heston again in a “Puss Moth”.

This was on 28th May ....just days after landing in Londonderry and creating new records - the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, the longest non stop flight by a woman, the only person to have flown the Atlantic twice and the record for crossing the Atlantic in the shortest time ....not bad going !

Hi Tim,

Yes, after I sent my message I found a reference to this in the book.  You probably know this but Gordon Selfridge was of the Selfridge’s Department Store family.  According to the book, her aircraft was “placed on view on the ground floor of their store”.

Anyway, are there any pictures of her at Brooklands?

All the best.

NickB.