aeroplanes vanishing in mid-flight. One of the more famous of these was the
disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the
second last stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had radioed her
position as she and her navigator searched desperately for their destination, a
tiny island in the Pacific. The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it
crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had been a long haul from New
Guinea, a twenty hour flight covering some four thousand kilometers. Did
Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some other island on her radioed
course? Or did she end up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory
had her being captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands and later
executed as an American spy; another had her living out her days under an
assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey. Seventy years after Earhart's
disappearance, 'myth busters' continue to search for her. She was the best-
known American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight
with great interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Aircraft had
developed rapidly in sophistication after World War One, with the 1920s and
1930s marked by an aeronautical record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the air
had become a global obsession. While Earhart was making headlines with her
solo flights, other aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and
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