74 years ago

Amelia Earhart declared dead
On this day in 1939, the American aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead after disappearing in July 1937 during an attempted round the world flight. Earhart was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was a powerful figure in women’s groups, and was an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. It is still unknown what happened to Earhart and theories about her disappearance contribute to the enduring fascination with her.

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75 years ago

July 2nd 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears On this day in 1937, the famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from before they disappeared. They made contact whilst flying over the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. Soon after they went missing, a massive search operation was launched but to no avail. Her fate remains unknown to this day.


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Jet Man in Swiss Alps

"The ultimate dream of flight - soaring through the air, with total freedom in all three dimensions, not within a heavy and complicated machine but with only one's body and sensations - a dream everybody had at least once in their life."