#OnThisDay, 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart makes her last radio transmission as she and navigator Fred Noonan start on their round the world flight. Contact was lost when they were over the Pacific and they were never found.

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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.

Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute

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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."

#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.

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#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in a field in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her in the nearest village here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

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#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart lands in California, becoming the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.

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