[–] Thyhorrorcosmic103 0 points 26 points 26 points (+26|-0) ago
Any time you hear “first woman” or “first nigger” means a white man did it first.
[–] DavidsHogg 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
And normally many times and for many years.
[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Yeah but Amelia did it with a vagina!
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 46 points 46 points (+46|-0) ago
It's still absolutely worth celebrating.
Have you seen the average woman drive? I'm thrilled she could even navigate an airplane!
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I searched for "female pilot landing"
She was hailed as a hero because she didn't hit any cars!
[–] MemeDropAcct 1 point 14 points 15 points (+15|-1) ago (edited ago)
I'm thrilled she could even navigate
Flying due East was too complicated for her to figure out on her own so she first flew across the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane piloted by a man, and then just duplicated the route. When she tried the circumnavigation trip she brought along an actual male navigator, but she still managed to over ride him and take a wrong turn.
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
She tried following Lindbergh's trail to Paris but had to give up in Ireland.
[–] Empire_of_the_mind 1 point 18 points 19 points (+19|-1) ago
i see you didn't read to the bottom of the wiki page
[–] gimpyoldman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
And how many guys got to handle then to cough up the money for her stunt?
[–] SilverAirplane 0 points 18 points 18 points (+18|-0) ago
In 1927 at age 25, Charles Lindbergh flew a plane of his own design, solo, from New York, across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris
A year later, Amelia Earhart, was flown as a passenger in someone else's plane across the Atlantic ocean. When she returned, she was "greeted with a ticker-tape parade along the Canyon of Heroes in Manhattan, followed by a reception with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.". For this (non)achievement, she was heralded as a "Hero." But what did she actually do? Earhart was just a passenger on the plane being flown by two men: Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. As Earhart herself later admitted, “Stultz did all the flying... I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes.”
In 1932, five years after Lindbergh's historic flight, and after tremendous progress in aviation technology, Earhart flew someone else's plane solo across the Atlantic. She intended to follow Lindbergh's route but she couldn't make it that far, and landed in Ireland, well short of her intended destination in Paris.
In Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Lindberg describes Earheart as a nice person but, not a very good pilot.
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The Spirit of St Louis itself has an account, and speaks to us!
[–] Empire_of_the_mind 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Lindbergh is a true fucking legend. Look into him for a real eye-opener.
[–] BentAxel 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
He was an odd person much like Bill Gates He wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic, he just chose the greatest span. Lindberghs flight came 8 years later.
[–] DozensOfDindus 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Fucking tragic about his son
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Truth. He said and did much in WWII, in both theaters....