A local man’s unsuccessful search for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane more than 85 years years after it disappeared hasn’t deterred Sullivan’s Island resident Tony Romeo from reexploring the ...

Sparks flew, a wing bent, and the landing gear snapped off as the silver Lockheed Electra 10-E plane ... The thirty-nine-year-old Amelia Earhart and her crew of two navigators, Fred Noonan and ...

When Amelia Earhart landed in Co Derry ... Lockheed Vega, and Pitcairn Autogiro. Sadly, however, in 1937 Earhart had moved onto a new challenge to circumnavigate the globe.

The Vega found favor with some airlines (Braniff, Bowen, and Hanford’s Tri-State among them) but established its fame as a racing aircraft favored by renowned pilots of the day, most notably Amelia ...

Wood offered his artistic interpretation in writing to Putnam: “Besides Amelia Earhart’s heroic spirit of flight, the design seeks to symbolize in line and contour the Lockheed Vega plane in ...

On January 12, 1935, famed aviator Amelia Earhart landed at Oakland Municipal ... the Pacific from Hawaii to California was a ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1935, iconic aviator Amelia Earhart made history by becoming the first person to fly solo between Hawaii and the US mainland. She embarked on this remarkable journey using her ...

LIFESTYLE On this day in history, August 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo coast-to-coast Earhart piloted her Lockheed Vega 5B from Los Angeles to Newark in 19 hours and 5 ...

Amelia Earhart, c. 1928, Courtesy ... Amelia buys another airplane, a single engine Lockheed Vega. In the Vega, she participates in the Women's Air Derby race from Santa Monica to Cleveland ...

Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her Lockheed Electra ... At the museum I am responsible for Earhart’s transatlantic Lockheed Vega and related material that will soon be displayed again in ...

In 1932, she flew solo in a Lockheed Vega from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland, making the trip in record time despite numerous mechanical difficulties and lousy weather. Throughout the 1930s, ...