Amelia Earhart broke up a White House dinner when she invited Eleanor Roosevelt to go on a flight to Baltimore and back.

Dressed in their evening clothes, the party went to Hoover Field in Arlington, Va., the first airport to open in the area, and climbed aboard an Eastern Air Transport twin-engine Curtis Condor.

Earhart, dressed in a white silk gown and wearing white kid gloves, was at the controls of the plane for most of the flight.

Mrs. Roosevelt, who had just received her student pilot’s license, was by Earhart’s side.

“I’d love to do it myself. I make no bones about it,” Roosevelt told The Sun. “It does mark an epoch, doesn’t it, when a girl in an evening dress and slippers can pilot a plane at night.”