Google commemorates aviatrix Amelia Earhart on her 115th birthday

Google’s memoir feature, Doodle, created for celebrating
anniversaries of famous historical celebrities posted a pictorial hyperlink of
Amelia Earhart on Google.com. The Doodle portrays Ms. Earhart with her infamous
airplane Lockheed Vega 5b with her
scarf fluttering in the air with sheer valor.

Google just
celebrated Earhart’s 115^th birthday, though a couple of weeks back was the anniversary of her tragic disappearance in the Central Pacific Ocean, with navigator Fred Noonan. The duo was attempting to circumnavigate the earth on Lockheed Model 10 Electra but went missing near the Howland Island.

Earhart was and is still known for her fearless expeditions
around the world she took on her planes. The aviatrix was obsessed with flying
and through advertisements and various endorsements financed her passion. She
was also a philanthropist and funded regularly the academy for training young
female pilots called Ninety nines.

In 39 years of highly decorated and commemorated life, the
pilot inspired many, including her gender to take the bold step of entering the
endearing profession.

She affected public fame for the first with her aerial
expedition across the Atlantic in 1932. Shortly afterwards, she continued the
hot streak of success by crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1935. However, the run
of successful adventures was short lived as two years later the heart-rending
and probably fatal incident of her disappearance occurred.

A long and intensive search project was undertaken at the
time but due to the lack of advanced equipment and expertise of the current
world, nothing substantial to their death or survival came up.

Inspired by her life and achievements, TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic
Aircraft Recovery) has again restarted the impossible operation. It is believed
that Earhart and Noonan might have made it to an uninhabited island of Nikumaroro.
Several articles of female possessions have been found at the site but all unsubstantiated
evidence.

So far TIGHAR has
been unsuccessful of produce any solid indication but the Group is not giving
up.

“This is
just sort of the way things are in this world,” TIGHAR President Pat
Thrasher told the media. “It’s not like an Indiana Jones flick where you
go through a door and there it is. It’s not like that — it’s never like
that.”

If TIGHAR finds
any substantial evidence to Earhart or Noonan’s existence on the island, the
news will be astoundingly a welcome. However, despite that fact Earhart will
always be remembered for her audacious adventures as the bright star in the
history of aviation.

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