Aviator Amelia Earhardt no date-2010
by David Lee Guss
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Aviator Amelia Earhardt no date-2010
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Female aviator and media darling Amelia Earhardt was heavily promoted by her book publisher husband George Putnam as "Lady Lindy," the female version of Charles Lindbergh who in 1927 was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Amelia, besides breaking several speed records, was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo (1932) and the first woman to fly nonstop, coast to coast across the United States the following year.
Amelia has entered the world of myth as she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in the Pacific in mid 1937 in their custom built Lockheed Electra 10E as they were attempting to fly around the world.
Search missions mounted over the ensuing decades have discovered tantalizing clues. A found piece of the Electra's fuselage confirms the conjecture that they either ran out of fuel or landed on an obscure, barren atoll and starved to death.
The most fanciful story is that they were captured by the Japanese, taken to Saipan, and executed as spies.
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January 16th, 2014
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