From a curious Midwestern girl to a legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart's life was a daring pursuit of freedom, flight, and ...

Amelia Earhart is one of the world's most celebrated aviation pioneers whose mysterious loss is still mourned today, but did you know on May 21, 1932, the record-breaking pilot landed in Ireland by ...

The event took place during the annual Amelia Earhart Festival in her hometown of Atchison, a city of more than 10,000 overlooking the Missouri River in northeast Kansas. In addition to the Romeo ...

Born in Atchison, Kansas, to a locally prominent family ... has given rise to competing theories on what became of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Jamie Simon But she must have ...

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas native, began her ascent to fame in 1922 when she piloted her bright yellow Kinner Airster ...

Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24 ... Elgin and Marie Long wrote the book "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved" in which they posit just that. Earhart and Noonan, they write ...

Aviation enthusiasts might want to attend the Amelia Earhart Festival today in Atchison ... 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. 28th Annual National Depression Glass Assn.’s Convention Show ...

We are running north and south,” Amelia Earhart radioed from ... grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart—the reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her ...

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane ...