The first of the ninety-nine: the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
The first of the ninety-nine: the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart She was born six years before the first flight of the Wright brothers and did much to turn the aircraft in a “vehicle”, found in his profession a love and, apparently, death and the mystery of her disappearance still haunts journalists and conspiracy theorists. She was congratulated by the presidents of the collection of the highest awards in several countries, she enthusiastically greeted on both sides of the Atlantic. All about Amelia Earhart — one of the first women pilots and the author of numerous world records, which is the subject of today’s edition of the rubric “History of science”. However, all this could not happen. The first meeting of Amelia with the plane of an impression on a ten-year girl is not made. “It was something made out of rusty wires and wood just didn’t look interesting,”