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| In a March 10, 1937, file photo, American aviator Amelia Earhart waves from the Electra before taking off from Los Angele on March 10, 1937. |
Amelia Mary Earhart ( AIR-hart; July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.
Earhart’s been back in the news recently as a group of scientists has rekindled the search for the wreckage from her ill-fated flight 75 years after she disappeared.
On Monday, a $2.2-million expedition started on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain.
But the group leading the search, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, its president told The Associated Press on Monday.
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