Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Sep. 21, 1931

Amelia Earhart Putnam, who three months ago cracked up an Autogiro in taking off (TIME, June 22). last week cracked one up in landing at Michigan State Fair Grounds. Mrs. Putnam was unhurt, but her husband, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, tripped over a wire as he raced to the scene, had to be taken to a hospital.

The Lindberghs bade farewell to friends in Tokyo, flew around a typhoon to Osaka for a brief visit in Kyoto on their way to Nanking.

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