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Amelia Earhart - A Study In Courage, Daring And Foolhardiness, Gene Tissot
Amelia Earhart - A Study In Courage, Daring And Foolhardiness, Gene Tissot
ERAU Prescott Aviation History Program
Amelia Earhart, disappeared while almost completing an around-the-world flight. This was just one of her many daring adventures. Hear the story of her relatively short, but dynamic aviation career from Gene Tissot, whose father was Amelia’s mechanic during her Hawaii to California flight in 1935. Admiral Tissot knows the pacific well as a decorated combat pilot in Korea & Vietnam. He became the third naval aviator to achieve 1000 arrested carrier landings, without an accident over 20 years, flying 11 different aircraft types.