Amelia Earhart
Courtesy Associated Press (AP) and Getty Images.
Edited by David Barth 7 August 2012.
Amelia Earhart was a famous aviatrix who flew during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937 she and her copilot, Fred Noonan,
took off for a round the world flight. Their plane was lost over the Pacific Ocean, and as of the date of this
writing, no signs of the wreckage have been found, although searchers have been looking for many years.
The Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, Colorado, USA has the Goldbug automobile that she drove with a wax
figure of Amelia sitting in the driver's seat.
Amelia loved children and helped provide financial support for an orphanage in Boston, Massachusetts. The Forney
Museum has a photograph of Amelia in her Goldbug with the orphan children sitting in and on the car.
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Associated Press (AP) |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Getty Images |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Associated Press (AP) |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Associated Press (AP) |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Getty Images |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Getty Images |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Associated Press (AP) |
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| Amelia Earhart, courtesy Getty Images |
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| Amelia Earhart, July 1937, courtesy Associated Press (AP) |
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Amelia Earhart and her copilot for
the Round the World Flight, Fred Noonan,
courtesy Associated Press (AP) |