The Vanishing of Amelia Earhart: The Aviator Who Flew Into the Blue and Was Never Found
On the second of July, 1937, the most famous woman flier in the world lifted off from a jungle airstrip in New Guinea and pointed her silver aircraft out over the emptiest expanse of ocean on earth. Amelia Earhart was attempting to circle the globe along its equator, the longest and most daring route ever flown, and only this final great stretch of the Pacific stood between her and triumph. Ahead of her, more than two thousand miles away across open water, lay a speck of coral called Howland Island, a landing strip barely visible on any map, where a ship waited to guide her in. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, flew toward it through the night and into the morning. They never arrived. Somewhere over that vast blue nothing, Amelia Earhart and her aircraft simply ceased to be, and nearly ninety years of searching has never brought back a single certain trace of her. The Most Famous Flier Alive By 1937 Earhart was more than an aviator; she was a legend in her own lifetime, an emblem ...