🗓#OTD in 1937, Amelia Earhart’s plane disappeared. Check out this footage of her final moments on the ground before she took off in her Lockheed Electra. 🎥America in Color: The 1930s | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

Rare footage of Amelia Earhart taking off from Harbour Grace on May 20 in 1932. She would become the world's first female to fly a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. She landed in Ireland the next day. Earhart was the first president of The Ninety-Nines and is the reason we have that name, which still can cause confusion for many people not familiar with our history. During the first meeting on November 2, 1929, at Curtiss Field, Valley Stream, Long Island, N.Y., the most important p