Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel. The Kansas native was flying a Lockheed Model 10 ...

Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24 ... Elgin and Marie Long wrote the book "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved" in which they posit just that. Earhart and Noonan, they write ...

Born in Atchison, Kansas, to a locally prominent family ... has given rise to competing theories on what became of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Jamie Simon But she must have ...

Transit leaders from around the Kansas City metro met at Children's Mercy Park Wednesday to discuss plans for transporting tens of thousands of fans when they arrive at next year's World Cup.

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane ...

We are running north and south,” Amelia Earhart radioed from ... grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart—the reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her ...