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As the Smithsonian presents the aviator’s restored Vega in Washington, a special replica of the aircraft quietly re-emerges after decades in obscurity ...
Using Google Earth, pilot Justin Myers found some anomalies near Nikumaroro Island that he thinks are strikingly similar to ...
British pilot Justin Myers believes he has found the exact location of where Amelia Earhart's plane crashed 88 years ago.
Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega 5C, NR965Y, at Wheeler Field, Oahu, Hawaii, January 4, 1935. (Getty Images/Underwood Archives via This Day in Aviation) ...
And Charles Lindbergh’s famed Spirit of St. Louis, the plane he flew on the first solo trans-Atlantic flight to Europe serves ...
Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega: Amelia Earhart purchased this 5B Vega in 1930 and called it her “Little Red Bus.” In 1932, she flew this airplane nonstop and alone across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming ...
These galleries will display returning favorites such as the Spirit of St. Louis, John Glenn’s Mercury Friendship 7 capsule, Apollo Lunar Module 2, and Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega.
5 Things to See at the National Air and Space Museum’s Newly Renovated Galleries Amelia Earhart’s plane, a Mars simulation, a Soviet Venus probe, and a touchable moon rock await.
In a new book, author Laurie Gwen Shapiro details Amelia Earhart's life, legacy and marriage to a shameless promoter that ultimately sealed her fate.
When Earhart and The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Viking, $35) Putnam met, she was a 30-year-old ...
Amelia Earhart (right) seated in a boat in flying clothing signs a book as a small group of people in an adjacent boat (left) look on; Burry Port (Porth Tywyn), Wales (UK), June 17, 1928, following ...