Amelia Earhart

FACTS ABOUT AMELIA EARHART

The first time she saw a plane, at the 1908 Iowa State Fair, she was not impressed. Years later, during WWI, she volunteered as a nurse’s aide at Toronto’s Spadina Military Hospital.  She hung around with the pilots at the nearby airfield and enjoyed watching their flights.  The bug hit Read more

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AMELIA EARHART THEORIES

On this day in 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared during her attempted flight around the world.  Her Lockheed Electra took off from New Guinea destined for tiny Howland Island over 2,500 miles away.  They never arrived.  Since the tragedy, many theories have been advanced to explain Read more

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