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Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | Solo | 2

Against The Odds

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The Fun of It

Amelia Earhart made history when she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo. She was also the second human after Charles Lindbergh to accomplish the feat. In 1937, just nine years after her first transatlantic flight, Amelia and George planned a final long-distance stunt in an attempt to generate publicity by circumnavigating the globe. From one of the final legs of the journey, while trying to locate a tiny South Pacific island where she was going to land and refuel, she disappeared. The disappearance of Amelia Earhart would go down as one of the great mysteries of the 20th century. It does not take courage so much to go as it does interest in the

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