Click to open image viewer. NR7952. High-speed cabin monoplane with cantilever wings and streamlined design. On May 20-21, 1932, Amelia Earhart flew this Vega across the Atlantic Ocean becoming the ...

Pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Learn how she used aviation to champion women’s independence and made history in her red Lockheed Vega 5B.

Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines.Earhart was equally at home in the air and on the pages of fashion magazines. Mark Avino / NASM A few steps away from a ...

Click to open image viewer. Amelia Earhart became one of the most famous female aviators in history after her nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1932, the first for a woman, in her ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane ...