Aviation history

In this NY Times article from July 3rd, 1937, the newspaper reported on Earhart's disappearance. The article mentions her husband's response to her disappearance, describes the search effort, and how close Earhart was to achieving her goal of becoming the first female pilot to…

Earhart's flight started in Oakland, California and made it all the way to Darwin, Australia. She was only 3 stops away from returning to Oakland when she disappeared.

After Weems’ initial offer to Earhart, her publishing magnate husband, G. P. Putnam, responded the next day to Weems’ offer, kindly rejecting it. This brief and forgotten exchange of letters sheds further light on the frequent criticism of Earhart from both her contemporary peers and from…

Weems wrote this letter to Earhart after her near-disastrous takeoff attempt in Hawaii in 1937. Extra navigation training may not have kept Earhart from disaster, but it might have allowed to her appreciate shortcomings in planning an equipment.

Amelia Earhart’s Electra, designated NR16020, was a modified Lockheed Model 10E with a range of more than 4,000 miles, a cruising speed of approximately 190 miles per hour, and a maximum ceiling pushing over 19,400 feet above sea level.

This letter, written by Amelia Earhart to Dr. Wiggam, circa 1932, contains extracts of materials for Earhart’s book The Fun of It. Earhart argues with Wiggam’s opinion that women don’t make good, safe pilots; Earhart states that proper tests have not been done on this, but the best conducted so far…

No other female aviator has had Amelia Earhart's instant worldwide fame. Committed to aviation, she promoted "airmindedness" at a time when most people were skeptical about airplanes as a form of transportation.

In this book excerpt, author Richard Reynolds discusses the idea of the superhero and its emergence during the Great Depression. He talks about the superhero tradition and how popular comic book superheroes emerged during this period.

<p><span class="deck"> The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else</span> </p>

<p>A few days after Lindberg's crossing, the second flight across the Atlantic carried the first passenger and was lucky to make it to Germany.</p>

<p><span class="deck">75 years ago, a powered kite landed on a cruiser. From that stunt grew the weaponry that has defined modern naval supremacy.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What the Wright brothers did in a wild and distant place made its name famous around the world. Their biographer visits the Outer Banks to find what remains of the epochal outpost.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">While lauded for their 1903 flight, the Wright brothers were not convinced of their airplane’s reliability to sustain long, controlled flights until October 1905.</span></p>

<p>Seventy-five years ago, the "first lady of the air" vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Today, there may be renewed hope of solving the mystery.</p>

<p>After three of his plane's engines flamed out, Captain John Murray was forced to land at night during a ferocious storm in the middle of the ocean. </p>

<p>Col. Harry Stewart downed three advanced Nazi fighter planes in one day, then surprised the Air Force when he and his Tuskegee teammates won the first "top gun" competition. </p>