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Earhart lifts off from Los Angeles alone, aiming for Newark without a stop
Three months after crossing the Atlantic solo, she points her red Vega east across the whole continent.
By the summer of 1932, Amelia Earhart had already crossed the Atlantic alone and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for it. On August 24, she climbed into her red Lockheed Vega 5B in Los Angeles and took off headed east, alone, with no stops planned before Newark. Roughly 24 hours later she set down in Newark, New Jersey, the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States by herself…
