Airienteering with 13MIKE

by Fred J. Calfior and Douglas W. Miller

AirLeg 17

1) Turn towards the “VETERANS HOSPITAL”

2) Climb to “2000” feet

“In 1937, Amelia Earhart and a navigator, Fred Noonan, tried to fly around the world in a Lockheed aircraft. They started from Miami, Florida and hopped toSouth America, Africa, India, and Australia. On July 1, they left New Guinea to cross 2550 miles of open ocean to Howland Island in the mid-Pacific Ocean, where they vanished. That mystery still continues to this day.”

3) When abeam VAN NUYS airport, go to AirLeg 40

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