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Amelia Earhart, Adventurer: Emerald Character
Amelia Earhart crossed the Atlantic alone on May 20 to 21, 1932, flying a single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B nonstop from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to a farmer's field near Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The flight covered 2,026 miles in about 15 hours and made her the first woman, and only the second person after Charles Lindbergh, to fly the ocean solo.
- Cost
- 3 crystals
- Type
- Character · Adventurer
- Power / Health
- 2 / 3
- Color
- Emerald (Frontier & Explorers)
- Rarity
- Legendary (Legacy)
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
- Keywords
- Explore
On play: draw a card.
Sky-conquering trailblazer who vanished into legend after rewriting the boundaries of both aviation and gender.
The real history
Earhart had crossed the Atlantic once before, in 1928, but not as a pilot. She rode as a passenger aboard a Fokker F.VII named Friendship while others did the flying. The trip made her the first woman to cross the ocean by air, and it made her famous.
In 1930 she bought a bright red Lockheed Vega 5B that she nicknamed her "Little Red Bus." Veteran pilot Bernt Balchen prepared and tested it for a long ocean flight. On May 20, 1932, she took off alone from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, heading east into the night.
The crossing was hard. She fought fatigue and nausea. A fuel tank leaked, and a cracked weld on the exhaust manifold sent flames out of the side of the engine cowling. Ice formed on the wings and pulled the Vega down about 3,000 feet, to just above the waves, before she regained control.
About 15 hours after takeoff, she set the plane down in a farmer's field at Culmore, near Londonderry. The world celebrated her at once. That August she flew the same Vega nonstop from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, the first solo nonstop flight across the United States by a woman. The Smithsonian acquired the plane in 1966.
In 1937 Earhart tried to fly around the world in a Lockheed Electra with navigator Fred Noonan. After about 22,000 miles, they left Lae, New Guinea, bound for tiny Howland Island in the Pacific. Radio contact was lost on July 2, 1937, and neither the flyers nor the plane was ever found.
Sources
- How Amelia Earhart Raced to Make History Crossing the Atlantic, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Amelia Earhart Biographical Sketch, Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
In the game's story
In the game's invented story, a small glowing purple stone rolls across Earhart's cockpit floor during her 1932 crossing, and the Vega flies out of the storm into the world of Marginalia. She lands in a sheep pasture outside Dogear Crossing, befriends the Wildkin ranger Elfie Layloft, and maps more of the realm from the air in a month than its cartographers had in a century. Later she helps the Reader bring down the Echo of the Aviator, a silver plane from her lost 1937 flight, and she now leads the explorers of Emerald.
How the card plays
Amelia Earhart, Adventurer costs 3 crystals and is a 2/3 Legendary Emerald Adventurer with Explore, so only characters that also have Explore can block her. When she arrives, you draw a card, which means she replaces herself in your hand.
She is one of Amelia Earhart's three Signature cards, so in a deck led by Earhart she costs only 2. That makes her an easy first or second turn play that keeps your hand full while your explorers start charging.
Pair her with Amelia Earhart, Vehicle Junkie, her Signature Pilot, which also has Explore and searches your deck for a Vehicle. Up a River gives every character with Explore +1/+0, so she hits harder. Sacagawea, River Guide gives your other Adventurers Explore, so more of your field flies past blockers alongside her.
- Playable in decks led by Amelia Earhart.
- A Signature card of Amelia Earhart: it costs 1 less while Earhart leads your deck.
- In the Earhart starter deck (2 copies). Deck code:
LC2-Ax8CIAEhASIBIwIkAiUBJgEnASgCKQEqAisBLAEtAS4BLwEwATEBMgEzATQBNQE2ATcBOAE5AToBOwE8AT0BZQJ0Anuc - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Earhart
Was Amelia Earhart the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic?
No. Charles Lindbergh did it first. Earhart's 1932 flight made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic alone and nonstop, and only the second person to do it at all.
What happened to Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega?
She sold it to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1933 after buying a newer Vega. The Smithsonian acquired it in 1966, and it belongs to the National Air and Space Museum today.
Card art
The standard version of Amelia Earhart, Adventurer. The Full Art above is a rare version that can appear in packs.
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