A model aeroplane inspired by American pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart received minor damage when part of a tree recently fell on its hangar in the rural area of Darwin .
It was built by former ABC journalist , author and Noodle House Friday Club Flight Controller, Richard Creswick , for a grand-daughter , who plans to build her own plane when she turns 10 . The wooden frame has plywood spacers covered with calico , daubed with aquadhere for rigidity , painted red .
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Amelia and her navigator , Fred Noonan ,vanished on a planned Round the World Flight in 1937. They took off from Lae, New Guinea, on July 2 that year in a specially built Lockheed Electra 10E bound for Howland Island, then Hawaii and back to California, the starting point , disappeared..
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There were indications that the plane was running short on fuel and may have crash landed in the sea.Theories included that she had died a castaway , even that she had been captured by the Japanese because she was a spy .
