Notes

Flight One

1. “Jerrie Mock makes last-minute preparations for her history-making, around-the-world solo flight which will begin 3/19,” Columbus Dispatch, March 18, 1964, 1A.

2. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 2.

3. Ibid., 7.

4. “Jerrie Mock, 2490 Bexford Pl, Bexley, will take off March 18th in her attempt to set a women’s around-the-world solo flight record,” Columbus Dispatch, March 17, 1964, 3A.

5. Jerrie Mock, “My Flight through Fear,” GRIT, Family Section, June 6, 1976, 14.

6. Ibid.

7. Richard Platt, Experience Flight (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2006), 22.

8. Candace Fleming, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011), 102.

9. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 10.

10. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 30, 2014.

Flight Two

1. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 30, 2014.

2. Jerrie Mock, telephone interview, June 5, 2014.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Mock, interview, July 30, 2014.

6. Susan Fredritz Reid (sister of Jerrie Mock), interview, January 20, 2015.

7. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 31, 2014.

8. Amy Saunders, “How an Ohio Housewife Flew Around the World, Made History, and Was Then Forgotten,” Buzzfeed, April 12, 2014.

9. Major Frank Chandler, “Base Man Was Navigator for Jerrie Mock’s Flight,” Lockbourne Skyhawk, May 15, 1964, 2.

10. “Jerrie Mock leaves Tripoli, Libya, and heads for Cairo, Egypt,” Columbus Evening Dispatch, April 1, 1964, 1A.

Flight Three

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 14.

2. Ibid., 22.

3. Jerrie Mock, telephone interview, June 5, 2014.

Flight Four

1. “Mock is ready to take off for the Azores,” Columbus Dispatch, March 26, 1964, 1A.

2. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 37.

3. Ibid., 41.

Flight Five

1. “Jerrie Mock flies into aviation history books when she completes a flight from the US to Africa; no other woman has ever piloted an airplane over this route,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, March 29, 1964, 1A.

2. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 45.

3. Ibid.

4. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 31, 2014.

5. “Jerrie Mock flies into aviation history books,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch.

6. “Jerrie Mock takes off in good weather for Bône, an Algerian city on the Mediterranean Sea, 910 miles farther along on her planned around-the-world flight route,” Columbus Dispatch, March 30, 1964, 1A.

7. Mock, interview, July 31, 2014.

8. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 58.

9. “Jerrie Mock takes off in good weather for Bône,” Columbus Dispatch.

Flight Six

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 64.

2. Ibid., 67.

3. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 30, 2014.

4. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 60.

5. Ibid., 76.

6. Jerrie Mock, “My Flight through Fear,” GRIT, Family Section, June 6, 1976, 14.

7. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 83.

8. Kathy Wesley, “Aviator from Newark broke world record,” Newark (OH) Advocate, November 4, 1991.

Flight Seven

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 97.

2. Ibid., 100.

3. “Jerrie Mock takes off from the Cairo airport and heads for Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,” Columbus Dispatch, April 3, 1964, 1A.

4. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 115.

5. Ibid., 123.

Flight Eight

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 128.

2. Ibid., 138.

3. Ibid., 140.

4. Ibid., 141.

Flight Nine

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 150.

2. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 30, 2014.

3. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 170.

4. Ibid., 180.

5. Ibid., 192.

Flight Ten

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 186.

2. Angel Sablan, “The History Behind the Holiday,” Explore Guam. A monthly publication of the Pacific Daily News, http://www.archive.guampdn.com/guampublishing/special-sections/exploreguam/pg5.html.

3. “Jerrie Mock recounts her thrilling global flight,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, April 19, 1964, 1A.

4. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 197.

5. Ibid., 198.

6. Ibid., 213.

7. Curby Rule, “The Deeper Meaning of Aloha,” Aloha International, http://www.huna.org/html/deeper.html.

8. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 216.

Flight Eleven

1. Jerrie Mock, Three-Eight Charlie (Granville, OH: Phoenix Graphix Publishing Services, 2014), 232.

2. Ibid., 234.

3. Ibid., 241.

4. Ibid., 243.

5. Betty Vail and Edwards Dixon, “Winner Takes All,” Flying, July 1964, 66.

6. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 247.

7. “Jerrie Mock recounts her thrilling global flight,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, April 19, 1964, 1A.

8. Mock, Three-Eight Charlie, 233.

Flight Twelve

1. Betty Vail and Edwards Dixon, “Winner Takes All,” Flying, July 1964, 66.

2. Ibid.

3. Carolyn Focht, “Jerrie Mock wants to settle back into her normal routine, but her new celebrity status makes it rather difficult,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, April 19, 1964, 1A.

4. Vail and Dixon, “Winner Takes All.”

5. Jerrie Mock, telephone interview, June 26, 2014.

6. James Craig, “Jet fighter ride thrills Jerrie Mock,” Columbus Dispatch, July 15, 1964, 1B.

7. Jerrie Mock, interview by the author, Quincy, FL, July 31, 2014.

8. Captain Nancy W. Aldrich, “Marina Raskova,” 20th Century Aviation Magazine, 20thcenturyaviationmagazine.com/o-capt-nancy-aldrich/marina-raskova/.

9. “Jerrie Mock recounts her thrilling global flight,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, April 19, 1964, 1A.

10. Mock, telephone interview, June 26, 2014.

11. Timothy R. Gaffney, “Flying housewife scores multiple firsts,” Century of Flight, Great Moments in Aviation, Dayton (OH) Daily News, April 15, 2002, 1B, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=0F3A4CCDF77794E8&p_docnum=1.

12. Mock, interview, July 31, 2014.

13. Lois Becker, “Globetrotter: Jerrie Mock and her trusty plane Charlie made aviation history,” Ohio State Alumni Magazine, July–August 2014, 28–30.

14. “Jerrie Mock recounts her thrilling global flight,” Columbus Sunday Dispatch, April 19, 1964, 1A.