Howdy redheadpei! Yes, it's amazing that they didn't have a way to navigate back then except with the stars and sun! Pretty primitive but long distance aviation was just getting started good in the 1930's. I'm going to talk more about that tomorrow, I was running out of time and it was getting long for todays.

I haven't studied Fred much but from what I've read he was very good and very experienced at his craft. There is an article about him that I was going to read tonight so I might have more to add in that regard.