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Grace Muriel Earhart was born in Kansas City on December 29, 1899, two years after her sister Amelia, to parents Edwin and Amy Earhart. The sisters had a turbulent childhood, filled with trips back and forth between their grandparents’ house in Atchison, Kansas and their parents’ home in Kansas City. Earhart's father was an alcoholic. [2]
From an early age, Amelia was the dominant sibling while her sister Grace Muriel Earhart (1899–1998), two years her junior, acted as a dutiful follower. [13] Amelia was nicknamed "Meeley" and sometimes "Millie", and Grace was nicknamed "Pidge"; both girls continued to answer to their childhood nicknames well into adulthood. [11]
A Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft named Muriel, the last one in the world, is the centerpiece of the new Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, Kansas.
The museum is centered around the restored Muriel-- a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (identical to the plane Earhart flew on her final flight). The museum also features 14 interactive exhibits, including a virtual reality experience. [12] [13] A bronze statue of Amelia Earhart is also on display outside the museum. [14]
The state-of-the-art museum features the world’s last known Lockheed Electra 10-E aircraft, the same kind of plane that Amelia Earhart piloted on her ill-fated attempt to fly around the world.
New solar images from the company’s underwater drone revealed an aircraft-shaped rock formation, not Earhart's plane. Sonar image speculated to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane was just a ...
1042 Muriel – Electra 10E on static display at the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum at Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison, Kansas. Delivered to Atchison in August 2016, it was previously owned by Grace McGuire, who had planned on using it to recreate Amelia Earhart's around-the-world flight. [21] [22] [23]
The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world.