Earhart famously died in 1937 while attempting to make her most spectacular flight yet — around the world on her own. Before that fateful flight, Shapiro recounts, the 39-year-old pilot told a ...
When author Becky Aikman decided in 2019 to write a book about the 25 American female pilots who flew planes for the Royal Air Force during World War II, she discovered that all but one of the women ...
She was the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean, and the first to accomplish that feat solo. She was a superstar, the most famous woman in the world. She was a pilot, “it” girl, author, ...