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 ...

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 ...

For her 1937 flight, Amelia Earhart (shown in 1936) had to get permission from the Sultan of Oman to fly over his territory. The British interfered, but finally relented. In the 1930s many ...