[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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....
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The Spirit of St Louis itself has an account, and speaks to us!
[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Yeah but Amelia did it with a vagina!
[–] Reverse-Flash 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Okay, so back to the tits. Can you describe them more in-depth?
[–] puggy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Nothing special by the looks of this
[–] Reverse-Flash 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
She looks like an extra for the old Flash Gordon tv series.
[–] BoraxTheFungarian 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Someday you'll see through to the heart of the matter.
[–] theoldguy2 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Well, Charles Lindbergh wasn't the first to fly over the Atlantic either.
[–] StarlettFox 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Whatever the Atlantic crossers did ..
Amelia Earhart who took off from Lae, New Guinea bound for Howland Island in mid Pacific thence Hawaii July 2, 1937..
Landed her Lockheed Electra 10E Special NR16020 on the reef at Nikumaroro Island in the Republic of Kiribati at 4°39'30.37" S Latitude, 174°32'40.23" W Longitude, some 350 nautical miles south east of her intended destination. Link.
A few hundred meters north of the wreck of SS Norwich City which while on a voyage from Melbourne Australia to Hawaii, ran aground on the northern part of the island in bad weather on the night of Nov. 29, 1929, taking the lives of eleven crew members. Link.
Emily Sikuli whose father Temou Samuela was the carpenter on Nikumaroro, says the landing was made on the outer portion of the reef flat just north of the wreck of the Norwich City, that the plane was visible at low tide however the shipwreck obscured vision from the settlement. Tighar.
"She landed on a tiny atoll – one of many in that general area of the Pacific – and was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat that took her to the Marshall Islands then under Japanese control." Amy Otis Earhart’s statement to the Los Angeles Times in July 1949.
"Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz told me without equivocation that Amelia and Fred had gone down in the Marshalls and were taken by the Japanese, that this knowledge was documented in Washington." Fred Goerner, CBS News.
In 1981 Catholic clergyman Monsignor James Francis Kelley revealed he was instrumental in Amelia Earhart’s repatriation from Japan, and that he helped her create a new identity as Irene Bolam.
A woman by that name who died in New Jersey in 1982 was in fact Amelia Earhart, she was secretly repatriated to the US from Japan after World War Two. A big fat razberry to the ones who say her fate is a mystery. Edit.
[–] 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!
[–] 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
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
OH SHIT!!
[–] bobdole9 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
A broken clock is correct twice a day.
[–] MemeDropAcct 1 point 14 points 15 points (+15|-1) ago (edited ago)
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.
[–] BentAxel 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I spit my lunch out on that one. Well done.
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I searched for "female pilot landing"
Immediately found this.
She was hailed as a hero because she didn't hit any cars!