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Famed aviator Amelia Earhart (39 years old), flight navigator Fred Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra airplane disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on the morning of July 2, 1937 on her planned round-the-world flight.  Her intended destination was Howland Island (which was about halfway between Hawaii and Australia).  The U.S. Coast Guard had sent the cutterContinue reading “Chasing Amelia Earhart”