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Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer.On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation.
The pioneering female aviator, a household name at the time, disappeared with Noonan, her flight navigator, on what was to be a record-setting trip around the world in 1937.
Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s.
Had Earhart completed her 1937 journey, according to Purdue, the plane would have been returned to the university for future scientific research. Purdue helped buy the plane Amelia Earhart flew ...
Maude Bonney (1897–1994), Australian aviator who was the first female to fly from England to Australia in 1933 and to South Africa in 1937. Ana Branger (born early 1920s), early Venezuelan aviator Jill E. Brown (born 1950), first African American female pilot for a major US carrier
Mary Du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, DBE, ARRC, DStJ, FLS (née Tribe; 26 September 1865 – ca. 22 March 1937) was a British aviator and ornithologist. [1] She was honoured for her work in founding hospitals and working in them during the First World War. She later financed and took part in record breaking flights to Karachi and Cape Town.
The combat veterans were both from California, the Navy said in announcing their deaths.