RIC GILLESPIE REMEMBERS being asked over and over: When are you going after Amelia? It was the late 1980s, just a few years after he had established the International Group for Historic Aircraft ...

Do you want to see it?” Ric Gillespie asks, reaching for a black portfolio resting on the floor of his Pennsylvania farmhouse. He extracts a sheet of aluminum, about 18 by 24 inches—bent ...

What can we expect to learn from Earhart’s wreckage? The maps, charts and notes from Earhart’s ill-fated historic flight , if they survived as Romeo also hopes, could serve as a time capsule.

Amelia Earhart is a feminist icon. The first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo, she was a true aviation pioneer and inspired generations of female pilots. Upon marrying her husband, George ...

Amelia Earhart and her long-lost plane were last seen when they took off from Papua New Guinea in 1937 Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...

Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland ...