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On this day in history, August 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo coast-to-coast
Aviation trailblazer Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the U.S. nonstop on this day in history, Aug. 24, 1932.
Earhart piloted her Lockheed Vega 5B from Los Angeles to Newark in a record 19 hours and 5 minutes.
The 3,986-kilometer (2,477-mile) flight set an official U.S. record for women’s distance and time, according to the National Air and Space Museum.
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Earhart’s solo, non-stop flight’s average speed for this record-breaking flight was 206.42 kilometers per hour (128.27 miles per hour), and she flew most of the way at an altitude of 3,048 meters (10,000 feet), the same source recounted.
Less than a year later, Earhart would set a new transcontinental speed record, making the same flight in a record 17 hours and 7 minutes, the same source indicated.
Amelia Earhart at the Oakland Airport, March 12, 1937. The pilot disappeared over the Pacific Ocean just four months later. (MediaNews Group/Carl Bigelow, Oakland Tribune via Getty Images)
Then on Jan. 11, 1935, she became the first person to solo fly the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California.
It was also the first flight in which a civilian aircraft carried a two-way radio, according to The Amelia Earhart official website.
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Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was a railroad lawyer, and her mother was from an affluent family.
As a child, she displayed an adventurous and independent nature for which she would later become known, noted Biography.com.
The Earhart family often moved — and while on a visit to her sister in Canada, Earhart developed an interest in caring for soldiers wounded in World War I.
Her first airplane ride in 1920 was an experience that prompted her to take flying lessons.
In 1918, she left junior college to become a nurse’s aide in Toronto, the same source indicated. When the war ended, Earhart entered a premed program at Columbia University in New York City but left in 1920 after her parents insisted that she live with them in California.
“It was there she went on her first airplane ride in 1920, an experience that prompted her to take flying lessons,” cited Biography.com.
In 1921, she bought her first plane, a Kinner Airster, and two years later she earned her pilot’s license, the same source said.
Earhart moved to Massachusetts, where she continued to pursue her interest in aviation.
Amelia Earhart after the first Hawaii-to-California flight, Jan. 12, 1935. She was the first pilot to succeed at flying the route. (Photo by ©CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Earhart continued to reach new heights in aviation.
On June 17, 1928, she departed Trepassey, Newfoundland, Canada, as a passenger aboard a seaplane piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, noted Britannica.com.
Much of the publicity was managed by publisher George Palmer Putnam, who had helped organize the historic flight. The couple married in 1931, but Earhart continued her career under her birth name.
That year she also piloted an autogiro to a record-setting altitude of 18,415 feet, the same source cited.
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In 1930, Earhart purchased the plane that would carry her into history, the iconic red Lockheed 5B Vega she nicknamed “Old Bessie.” It’s been on display at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum since its opening in 1976, according to Popular Mechanics.
In 1930, Earhart purchased the plane that would carry her into history, the iconic red Lockheed 5B Vega she nicknamed “Old Bessie.”
Then, on May 20, 1932, and exactly five years to the date of Lindberg’s journey, she made her own indelible mark — becoming only the second person to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic and the first woman, the same source recounted.
This flight in her 5B Vega from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Northern Ireland was completed in a record time of 14 hours 56 minutes despite a number of challenges.
Earhart faced inclement weather and some mechanical difficulties and was unable to land in her scheduled destination of Paris, Brittancia.com reported.
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Earhart’s fate then turned to tragedy.
On the morning of July 2, 1937, she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last legs in their historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe, History.com reported.
A closeup of Amelia Earhart. Although her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was declared officially deceased on Jan. 5, 1939. (AP)
Their next destination was Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, about 2,500 miles away.
But Earhart never landed on Howland Island.
Battling overcast skies, faulty radio transmissions and a rapidly diminishing fuel supply in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra plane, she and Noonan lost contact with somewhere over the Pacific, the same source recounted.
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“Despite a search-and-rescue mission of unprecedented scale, including ships and planes from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard scouring some 250,000 square miles of ocean, they were never found,” History.com stated.
Her accomplishments and her legacy serve as an inspiration to thousands.
At the time, the Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan had run out of fuel, crashed into the Pacific and drowned, according to multiple sources. The mystery of her disappearance remains a fixture in popular culture and her fate has been the subject of numerous books and movies.
Although her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was declared officially deceased on Jan. 5, 1939.
Earhart received numerous posthumous honors. She was enshrined in 1968 in the National Aviation Hall of Fame and in 1973 in the National Women’s Hall of Fame, noted the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Her image adorns a 1963 air mail stamp. She’s also the namesake of the USNS Amelia Earhart, a Navy cargo ship launched in 2007, the same source said.
Despite the tragic end to Earhart’s life, her accomplishments and her legacy still serve as an inspiration to thousands of budding young pilots everywhere, noted Britannica.com.
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Humboldt officials accuse San Francisco of busing the city's homeless problems north
San Francisco and Humboldt County officials are trading jabs over Mayor London Breed’s plans to more aggressively promote a city program that pays to relocate homeless people to other communities where they have family or other ties.
During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs.
“We are concerned that providing bus tickets to other jurisdictions without verifying access to housing, family support or employment does not alleviate homelessness; it simply shifts the person to another county,” the letter states.
The supervisors were responding to a recent report in the San Francisco Standard that found the counties of Sacramento, Los Angeles and Humboldt were the top three destinations for homeless people bused out of San Francisco since September 2023.
“We don’t need to be a dumping ground,” Humboldt County Supervisor Rex Bohn said at the meeting. “Our cost for taking care of a homeless person that has nothing up here … it’s expensive.”
Breed’s office says the notion that San Francisco is dumping its homeless problems up north is overblown — and noted that Humboldt County has sent people south, too.
Over the last year, San Francisco has helped five people relocate to Humboldt County, which in turn has sent four people to the City by the Bay, according to data from both jurisdictions.
Humboldt County’s concerns center on a San Francisco program called Journey Home that Breed launched in autumn 2023 to assist homeless people in returning to their home states or relocating to other cities in California where they have family, friends or some history. The city covers the cost of bus, plane or train fare and provides a meal stipend.
The program is a critical component of Breed’s high-profile campaign to more forcefully clear out the sprawling tent encampments that have mushroomed across the city in recent years. The effort, launched in July, is buoyed by a pivotal June 28 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave local communities greater legal standing to ban homeless people from sleeping in public spaces.
In recent weeks, outreach workers, backed by law enforcement officers, have spread out across the city and ordered people to dismantle their tents, offering them treatment and housing — and issuing citations if they refuse to accept help.
As part of the initiative, Breed issued an executive directive Aug. 1 requiring outreach workers to offer homeless people who aren’t from San Francisco free relocation assistance through Journey Home “before providing any other city services, including housing and shelter.”
An estimated 8,300 people are living homeless in San Francisco, about half of them sleeping in parks and on sidewalks in makeshift shelters, according to the city Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. According to the city’s 2024 homeless survey, about 40% of people living on the streets said they were not from San Francisco.
Humboldt County, about 300 miles north, is struggling with its own homeless problems. The numbers are far smaller — about 1,600 people are living without permanent housing — but in a rugged rural setting with far fewer resources, local officials are straining to meet the need.
“It is not that Humboldt has seen an influx of people experiencing homelessness being sent to the county from San Francisco,” Christine Messinger, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, wrote in a statement.
“It is that the county and the Humboldt Housing and Homelessness Coalition member agencies are already seeing our resources stretched thin to take care of the folks living here, and an influx of new people could be detrimental to those efforts.”
As part of its efforts to move people into housing, Humboldt County also operates a relocation assistance program. Over the last year, the county has helped 142 people travel to locations throughout the country, Messinger said, including the four who relocated to San Francisco. They have denied assistance to nearly 100 more.
But the supervisors critical of San Francisco’s approach said Humboldt’s program is far more involved. County workers are supposed to verify that participants have family, friends and employment opportunities waiting for them, and to follow up with people on the other side of their travels.
In contrast, Bohn claimed, San Francisco hasn’t tracked people who relocated to Humboldt County to make sure they landed on their feet and have found employment and stable housing.
“All you have to do is ask, ‘I want to go here,’ and you get a bus ticket, and you get to go. No follow-up, no everything else,” Bohn said.
In addition, he said, San Francisco is essentially giving homeless people a choice between leaving town and legal action.
“I don’t want to hurt San Francisco’s feelings,” he said. “But on the other hand, I don’t care.”
Jeff Cretan, Breed’s spokesperson, rejected the depiction of San Francisco shipping homeless people out of the city without due diligence. He said Journey Home helps “reconnect them to friends, families or communities they previously lived in.” Before busing people to Humboldt, he said, city staffers spoke with family members or friends who expressed that “they wanted them.”
And though he acknowledged Humboldt County is among the more popular Journey Home destinations, he said the numbers are small.
In addition to the five people sent to Humboldt County in the past year, Cretan said, six were sent to Sacramento, five to Los Angeles and 13 to other parts of the state. Seven people have been relocated to Nevada and nine to Oregon.
Cretan said he wasn’t aware of any requirement for city workers to follow up with Journey Home participants once they are relocated, but he added: “Sometimes you can’t find people, too. That’s the reality.”
For now, Humboldt leaders have put a pause on formalizing the draft letter to Breed. Messinger said county officials will follow up with San Francisco staffers directly “to have more discussions before a final decision is made about whether a letter will be sent to the mayor.”
The Denver Broncos will sit rookie starting quarterback Bo Nix in the preseason finale vs. the Arizona Cardinals. Jarrett Stidham will start the game, taking eight to 12 snaps, before giving way to Zach Wilson, who’ll play the rest of the game.
We’ll see if that’s how it plays out for Stidham, or if he ends up seeing more playing time. But it would seem that the Broncos are leaning heavily toward him being Nix’s primary backup.
Where does that leave Wilson? Broncos head coach Sean Payton revealed his expectations for the newcomer quarterback entering what could be his last appearance in the Orange and Blue.
“The first thing is, I’ll give him an opportunity maybe—I know it will, with the second group,” Payton said of Wilson. “So often it’s hard to evaluate that position if the other elements aren’t working. So just watching him really follow up the week he’s had in practice and take it to the game, run the huddle and just seeing him play.”
When he took to the podium on Wednesday to announce Nix as the starter, Payton described Wilson’s momentum in practice as being on a “heater,” a baseball term meant to describe pitchers in the zone. Payton wants to see it translate to the live-bullet grid-iron.
Now Broncos Country sees why Stidham is only getting a handful of snaps. If it plays out the way Payton hopes, Stidham will only get two, maybe three drives.
Payton wants to quickly turn the page to Wilson to give him the opportunity to ply his wares with the second-team offense. In Game 1, Wilson played surprisingly well as the No. 3 quarterback, with mostly the third-stringers, but with that same unit, he struggled in Game 2, facing relentless pressure.
Never say never because it’s the NFL and anything can happen, but Payton doesn’t sound like he’s necessarily expecting Wilson to go out and seize the Broncos’ QB2 job from Stidham. Rather, the Broncos head coach wants to make sure Wilson is given a solid opportunity to punctuate his summer under Payton’s tutelage with a showing that could see him catch on elsewhere.
“No, we’ve got a pretty good idea [of] the direction we’re going,” Payton said of the competition for backup quarterback. “We’re going to meet here in about five minutes. [GM] George [Paton], myself, a few others and kind of go through the depth chart as we see it and the discussion players. I think we’ve got a real good handle on that room specifically. We’re not announcing anything, but I like—I’ve said this, I’ll say it again, I like the room. I feel like we’ve gotten better and this will be a good test, [a] good opportunity for Zach getting work with the second wave. He’ll get a lot of snaps.”
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If Payton likes the room that much, perhaps the Broncos will end up keeping Wilson and carrying three quarterbacks on the 53-man roster. With a young, healthy first-round quarterback taking the starter’s snaps, I doubt Payton will ultimately want to ‘waste,’ so to speak, a roster spot on a signal-caller who’ll do nothing but hold a clipboard.
“Certainly, good question,” Payton said about carrying three quarterbacks. “I think we’ve studied 14—last year of the 32 teams, just under half the league—I know the rule recently changed. If, in fact, you do—this came after the 49ers-Eagles game, the third comes up [from the practice squad] without any count. Ultimately, I think most importantly, you’re really looking at your assets when we make that decision.”
Payton is speaking to the new NFL rule that allows teams to elevate and dress a practice squad quarterback to make him available as the “emergency QB” without him counting against the gameday roster or 53-man roster. But Wilson’s not going to make it through waivers.
In a perfect world, Payton would hope that he could waive Wilson, and re-sign him to the Broncos’ practice squad. But as the former No. 2 overall pick in the 2021 draft, if the Broncos waive Wilson, there will be some team(s) out there that’ll claim him, with a coach who loved him as a prospect coming out of BYU, intrigued by what the still-young quarterback looks like in his system after a half-year under Payton’s wing.
Even if Wilson goes out on Sunday and turns in another relatively unimpressive performance, if the Broncos waive him, it’s a virtual guarantee he’ll get claimed off waivers because of his draft pedigree and the Payton QB shine. However, there’s one last play for Payton within the realm of possibility: a trade.
Payton is going with Stidham as his QB2. But if Wilson can impress vs. the Cardinals, perhaps the Broncos could trade him to a team that doesn’t want to leave its backup quarterback fate up to chance on the NFL waiver wire. I have my doubts about that possibility.
But, again, it’s the NFL. We have to remain open to everything, even the slim chances.
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