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On May 21, 1937, Amelia Earhart took off from Oakland, California, and headed east.

It was the start of her second attempt to fly around the world at the equator; an earlier try in March had ended just a few days into the trip when her Lockheed Electra L-10E crashed during takeoff in Honolulu. Despite that incident, Earhart remained determined to be the first pilot, man or woman, to […]