Welcome to the DC-3 Airways charter, "Amelia Earhart's 1937 World Flight."


BACKGROUND
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Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan left Oakland, California, USA, on 20 May 1937 in their Lockheed Electra L10E in an attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe at or near the equator. They chose to fly an easterly route to best avoid customary storm systems in the Caribbean and Africa.

They never made that goal.

On 2 July 1937 they were in Lae, New Guinea with 19,000 NM behind them. The most dangerous leg lay ahead of them, to tiny Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, 2224 NM away.

Earhart and Noonan left Lae at 10:00 AM local time. Their last communication was 20 hours and 13 minutes later. They were  flying a 157°/337° Line of Position, 1000 ft above the ocean in search of Howland Island.

Although the DC-3 is larger than the Lockheed L10E, it's flight characteristics are rather similar, providing you with  flight experiences similar to Earhart's. We wish you better luck finding Howland Island.


GETTING STARTED
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Both Flight Options and Equipment options will be available to you after the simple file installation. The document, "Earhart_Getting_Started.html" provides the information needed to help you make the choices that are best for you. Find that document in folder "C:/Earhart_2006."

INSTALLATION
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Download "001-08.zip" to a temporary folder. Then extract the files (2) to the same temporary folder.

1 ... "Readme_AE_Charter.txt" ... this document.

2 ... "DCA_Earhart_Charter.exe" ... the program file.

Using Windows Explorer, double-click the file name "DCA_Earhart_Charter.exe" and then follow the on-screen instructions.

If you are uncomfortable with self-install programs, then direct this self-install to a tempoary directory and then manually move your files to the indicated folders.

Then, using your browser, open "Earhart_Getting_Started.html" in the folder C:/Earhart_2006 and follow the setup instructions.

That's all there is to it.


UNINSTALLING
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See the "Getting Started" document for instructions on how to uninstall this program.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND COPYRIGHT
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Thanks to Mike White, Dave Bitzer, Norman Hancock, Alex Nicolson, Mark Beaumont, Al Gay, Johan van Wyk, and Tim Cook for their help on this charter. Their contributions were greatly appreciated. 

This program is copyright 2006 by Charles Wood or by the respective authors.


DISCLAIMERS
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The Amelia Earhart World Flight Program has been tested on three computer systems and found to be satisfactory, but you use it at your own risk. If any damage results to your computer or you think any damage has resulted to your computer by using this program, it is solely the user's responsibility. Attempting to install or use this World Flight Program is acknowledgement of full acceptance of all risks.

These files have been virus checked before posting to the Internet.

     
FREEWARE USE ONLY
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This Amelia Earhart World Flight Charter was developed for the exclusive freeware use by flight simulator enthusiasts. Charging any fees for this system or any of its files, even if only part of another pay product, is prohibited.

Enjoy flying this historic flight! 

Charles Wood
13 May 2006













