61. Women Who Fly- Amelia Earhart

<p>This episode is brought to you by Ground News. You can get 40% off their Vantage plan and stay up to date with all the news by going to groundnews.com/tables</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandma Ena was a pilot and they were her favorite stories to tell. I am sure its no surprise that I grew up with Amelia Earhart as one of my heroes. The woman who flew so that my grandma could fly. </p><p>She vanished into the sky—and into one of the greatest mysteries of the modern age.</p><p>In this episode, we fly into the world of Amelia Earhart, a woman who refused to stay grounded, refused to stay compliant and traditional in a time when society expected her to. She became record-breaking aviator and one of the most famous women in the world. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. A symbol of independence, grit, and relentless ambition.</p><p>But Earhart wasn’t just chasing records—she was chasing the edge of possibility itself.</p><p>In 1937, she set out on a daring attempt to circumnavigate the globe, navigating thousands of miles over open ocean with only the tools and technology of her time. Somewhere over the vast Pacific, near a tiny speck called Howland Island… she disappeared.</p><p>No confirmed wreckage. No distress call that told the full story. Just silence.</p><p>In this episode, we’ll trace her rise from a curious, rebellious girl to one of the most famous pilots in history and then dive headfirst into the theories, investigations, and unanswered questions that have kept her story alive for nearly a century.</p><p>And we will take a brief flyover to meet the Night Witches of the USSR's air service.</p><p>This episode is to celebrate Women's History month with women who paved a runway for those who would come later!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rachel Hartigan, <em>Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Amelia Earhart and the Bermuda Triangle</em></p><p>Susan Butler, <em>East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart</em></p><p>Doris L. Rich, <em>Amelia Earhart: A Biography</em></p><p>Mary S. Lovell, <em>The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart</em></p><p>Candace Fleming, <em>Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart</em></p><p>Ric Gillespie, <em>Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance</em></p><p>Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, <em>Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved</em></p><p>Mike Campbell, <em>Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last</em></p><p>Fred Goerner, <em>The Search for Amelia Earhart</em></p><p>Vincent V. Loomis, <em>Amelia Earhart: The Final Story</em></p><p>Les Kinney, <em>Amelia Earhart: Beyond the Grave</em></p><p>Theodore G. Tharpe, <em>Crash and Sink: The Salvage of the Earhart Electra</em></p><p>National Geographic Society, “Amelia Earhart Biography and Disappearance”</p><p>Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “Amelia Earhart”</p><p>Library of Congress, “Amelia Earhart Papers”</p><p>FBI Records: The Vault, “Amelia Earhart”</p><p>TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), “Amelia Earhart Project Research”</p><p>U.S. Navy Historical Center, “Earhart Search Operations 1937”</p><p>PBS American Experience, <em>Amelia Earhart</em></p><p>History Channel, “Amelia Earhart Disappearance Theories”</p>