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John Cairns wrote:

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katysails wrote:


Maybe not earthshakingly pretty, but certainly not ugly...so she looks
like a normal human being...why should that make anyone sick?


She was a free spirit. I admire her and wonder what she could have become
or how she might have chnaged the world if she had not been lost.

Cheers


Bwahahahhahahahaha. She was an early example of the art of celebrity
making. Celebrated as the first female to fly across the Atlantic, she
was dismayed to discover that the actual pilots were completely ignored
by the media, she herself was merely a passenger on the plane.
Nonetheless, she continued on her career path, hubris contributing to her
not so untimely disappearance. She wasn't a particularily good flyer, not
even a good female flyer, merely a well publicized one.

http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

As you can see, it's still a money making enterprise.

John Cairns


I'm sure it is. Do you really think she accomplished nothing?

Cheers


Depends on your take on the importance of heroic figures in modern society.
For the most part, Earhart merely became the first woman to accomplish this
or that aviation milestone.

http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/achievements.html

As you might notice from the list, only four of the milestones were actual
firsts, three of these were dubious achievements, the first person to fly
solo between Mexico City and Newark, for example. I think even she would
admit that her celebrity was much greater than her talent as an aviator. I
firmly believe that if she had not disappeared in such a spectacular fashion
she would have been largely forgotten by now. At the time she was a
superstar, the US government spent four million in 1937 searching for her.
Her greatest accomplishment was becoming a semi-mythical figure.

John Cairns

John Cairns