In June of 1928, a 30-year-old social worker named Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air on a plane called the “Friendship.” Though Earhart was a licensed pilot with some ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amelia Earhart is forever etched in history, both American and international. Her time as a trailblazing aviator, a face of ...
Nearly 90 years after celebrated American aviator Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, a veteran pilot believes he may ...
Pisano, Dominick A. 1994. "Film review: "Amelia Earhart," written, produced and directed by Nancy Porter Productions for The American Experience, 1993." Journal of ...
The Kansas-born aviator was a heroine of the Midwest in her day. But her legend was forged in Midtown Manhattan. Amelia Earhart in 1932, the year she became the first woman to make a nonstop solo ...
“Sex, violent death, and mystery. If your life has one of these things people might be interested. If it has two, now you’re tabloid fodder. If it has three, you’re Amelia Earhart.” So begins Laurie ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dorothy Cochrane is curator for General Aviation in the Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and is responsible for the collections of ...