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KEN BRIDGES For the adventurers and dreamers of the world, there are no limits.  Wiley Hardeman Post was born on his parents’ cotton farm near Canton in November 1898.  He was born on a farm with no electricity in a time when airplanes were still just a dream, but within a few years, he would become one of the most famous pilots in the world.  Like many farm families of the time, the Post family often struggled and moved often.  When he was three, the family left Van Zandt County and moved to a farm near Abilene.  In 1907, the family moved to Oklahoma.

After 84 years, Amelia Earhart's navigator lost letters were found. Flying with Earhart was Captain Fred J. Noonan. He sent a letter from Indonesia before he disappeared after one last radio call.

BBC News Published Amelia Earhart's historic landing in Londonderry on 21 May 1932 will be commemorated. Earhart took off from Newfoundland in Canada in a bid to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Hoping to land in Paris, bad weather and technical problems altered her course and she landed in Derry. To celebrate the 89th anniversary of Derry's accidental place in aviation history, radio operators from around the world will share her story . People from over 99 countries are expected to listen to the special event, which will be broadcast from locations connected to the av...

Good morning, it’s Friday, May 21, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise quotations intended to be uplifting or educational. Today’s comes from Amelia...

Ruth Nichols wasn’t afraid. Not since her first ride in a biplane in 1919, when the pilot did loop-de-loops to terrify her. She conquered her fear and began a career as an aviatrix with the singular purpose of being the best. In the years following Charles Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight in 1927, courageous female pilots were in a drive to out-fly one another in the race to be the first woman to repeat Lindbergh’s feat. Aviation was still in its infancy. Pilots were daredevils, flying by the seat of their pants, to go faster, further, higher than ever before using shockingly u...