Amelia Earhart

Deep Sea Vision has a fuzzy underwater image it thinks is Amelia Earhart’s Electra, but it plans to go back and look to be sure.

The Earhart Hangar Museum in Kansas in the running for Best New Museum in a USA Today readers’ choice poll.

Members of Amelia Earhart’s family are expected to be in attendance at the grand opening of the museum, which has the world’s last remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E.

Unquestionably, Amelia Earhart has left an indelible mark on aviation. Known for a number of aviation feats, not limited to being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, the famed aviator’s triumphs inspire pilots (and future pilots) nearly a hundred years later.  And for almost as long as she’s been a household […]

Amelia Earhart wasn’t the only woman to test her mettle in an airplane. She also wasn’t the only one to find a watery grave.

Three-quarters of the globe behind them, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, now had only the Pacific Ocean left to cross. They took off midmorning from Lae, Papua New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, bound for Howland Island, an 8,200-foot-long, paramecium-shaped speck halfway to Honolulu. A runway had been carved out on the uninhabited […]