Amelia Earhart - Pilot | Biography
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- Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897, disappeared July 2, 1937), fondly known as "Lady Lindy," was an American aviator who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the equator. Earhart was the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license. She had several notable flights, including becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 as well as the first person to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific. Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939. #Biography
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Glad you enjoyed the post. Didn't think anyone would get it. Cheers!
1st stanza of "Electra Descending", w/ my tentative interpretations in brackets:
Windows rattle with contempt
[wind on the plane windows]
peeling back a ring of dead roses
[impending death]
Soon it will rain blue landscapes
[crashing in the ocean]
leading us to suffocation
[drowning]
The walls structured high in a circle of oiled brick
[airplane hanger]
and legs of tin
[Electras wheel struts]
Fascinating. Thank you for posting those lyrics & for the excellent conversation.
Very interesting, and very appropriate quote, especially as Amelia was flying, "Electra" and it crashed, "descending", and the lyrics, "nipples licking the clouds" from that song could, or do, refer to flying. Love Christian Death. The whole first stanza of that song could be applied to Amelia and the crashing of the "Electra."
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I learned to fly from a lady named after her.. Best pilot I ever met.
I was told by my great uncle that the lockeed electra was known to float indefinatly because it was so well built. if they were able to ditch on the planes belly then the plane should have stayed afloat for quite a while.
Witty, poetic, funny, thank you creepy little treat.:)
If she ran out of gas, that means she had 1150 gallons of air in her tanks when she ditched. How does that ‘sink quickly, without a trace’?
Yeah it is. Its the first thing I thought of when I saw this vid. Great band. Don't you think so?
There's some speculation that she and her friend were taken alive by the Japanese. Where I don't know.
Christian Death reference? "Electra Descending"?...
I am NOT!
Read my book.
Kind regards.
The only person who ever became famous for FAILING.
I like it because my ALBA school teach me
@jacknuts22 apperantly u know nothing about her
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LOL.
Not funny.
Sorry she was a mediocre pilot who gained fame as the first transatlantic passenger, she had a alcoholic for a copilot, error, panic and bad luck is all you need for everything to go wrong. Blaming equipment falure is code for pilot, engineering or mechanic error, machines don't make mistakes. The rule is there are no old, bold pilots. She was a bold pilot, I have no doubt of her courage, and it is human nature to push the envelope, and many pay for trying. An Upstate crash got more NYC press.