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Astonishing Legends

Amelia Earhart Vanishes Part 1

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Background:

Amelia Earhart is one of the most famous aviators in the world and she flew into the history books in July of 1937 when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, Papua New Guinea for Howland Island. They never made it. Come with us on part 1 of this 2 part special while we take you back to what her life was really like in the years leading up to her vanishing.

Legend:

There are dozens of theories about Amelia's disappearance, most of which don't hold water, but there are three or four that any one of which proven true would make for one of the most fantastic tales ever told.

This episode is about aviation's most famous disappearance of all time, Amelia Earhart.

Stories

(Links work best in iOS on iTunes or on our webpage at astonishinglegends.com)

On Amelia Earhart:

The Wikipedia Page on Amelia Her Official Website A great History Channel Page on Amelia The 99's Her Lockheed Electra 10E Special Her Lockheed Vega 5B

Interesting Facts: Contrary to popular belief, Amelia was considered by many, including close friends, not to be a great pilot. Paul Mantz supposedly cited pilot error after their failed take-off in Hawaii (he later died of pilot error himself). Her lack of finesse was also apparent on various occasions when she would compete in air races and finish far in the field with a bouncy landing in front of all the spectators.

No one on Earth ever doubted her courage however.

On Fred Noonan:

The Wikipedia Page on Fred A History Channel Page on Fred

Interesting Facts: Noonan had reportedly wanted to open a navigation school and saw his participation in the circumnavigation as a way to generate interest. Unfortunately he was lost at sea.

On Paul Mantz:

Wikipedia Page on Mantz Youtube Video showing Paul Mantz's final fatal accident.

Interesting Facts: Paul Mantz became a movie stuntman and died filming 'Flight of the Phoenix'.

For more information on this episode visit our website!

Credits:

Episode 004 - 'Amelia Earhart Vanishes (Part 1)' Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, Ryan McCullough Sound Design, Scott Philbrook Editing. Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2014, All Rights Reserved.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait, do I still not say so? I don't do it again. I'm not you're gonna you're not gonna say can you believe it now?

0:06.4

Then what are you wanting me to say? What am I supposed to jump in just commenting?

0:09.9

Okay, don't look at the script. All right. All right. Let's just have a conversation. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. So

0:15.2

We're at over 20,000 downloads of our first three episodes and 101 countries

0:21.3

Can you believe it? I can believe it because

0:24.8

Scott called every person he knows and they've all been really generous in

0:30.2

downloading and giving us a try and then there's a lot of folks that are certainly we don't have 20,000 friends between us

0:35.3

But thank you so much to the people that are willing to give us a shot and liked it and keep coming back and thanks for the initial

0:41.8

Download and please subscribe. Yes, and I think we have a fair amount of subscribers. I actually can't track that but it you can sort of tell when our new episode

0:49.9

Hits how many we have that first day sort of right off the bat and here's the thing we're not stopping

0:55.4

We're only just getting started

0:56.8

We have a file cabinet with literally thousands of story ideas in it and we're gonna keep doing this as long as we can

1:02.3

So thank you for tuning in do you know, I have anything to add to that? No

1:06.6

Clicking while I'm talking

1:08.6

You know, I was looking up how many nations are in the United Nations and I think it's like a hundred and twenty four

1:13.7

So we will not stop until we got a download from each one of those

1:17.1

You know, it most of the downloads are in the United States. There is a long list of oh there's some there's some

1:24.7

Far-out reaching countries there. Yeah, and there's a long list of them some that we just have four or three or two or one

1:30.8

And you know what's interesting

1:31.9

There's one particular country that I want to talk about right now and that is New Caledonia

1:36.0

Which actually I can't even call a country. It is a special collectivity of France whatever that means

1:40.6

New Caledonia is about

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