The Missing Aviator
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Amelia Earhart was one of the best pilots of her age. An American pioneer, she was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic and broke countless records. Then, one day, she took off and never landed at her intended destination. In this episode, we explore what might have happened on that now infamous flight...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a high-flying episode of Mysteries of Science. My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science and Nature, a monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior. |
| 0:11.6 | And I'm Kieran, the features editor. In each issue of science and nature, we explore the universe through our in-depth features and news stories, inspiring images, interviews with |
| 0:21.6 | top experts and much more. |
| 0:23.6 | This is Mysteries of Science, the podcast where we look at the stories that are unexplainable |
| 0:29.1 | and the ones that have left scientists scratching their heads for decades. |
| 0:33.6 | We've already looked at the Loch Ness monster, extraterrestrial life and the curse of King Tutt's |
| 0:39.5 | tomb. In this episode, we're looking at something a little bit different. Some of you will know |
| 0:45.3 | the story of Amelia Earhart already. They called her the Queen of the Skies. She was a record |
| 0:51.6 | breaking pioneer of flying, an inspirational explorer, famous all around the |
| 0:57.0 | world. But at the height of her fame, Amelia Earhart vanished into thin air and was never heard of |
| 1:03.1 | again. In this episode, we're on the trail of a cold case, a mystery that has never been solved. Will we |
| 1:09.7 | discover what happened to Amelia Earhart? |
| 1:12.1 | We're going to be joined by some truly brilliant guests, a modern day explorer, |
| 1:16.1 | one of the science museum's expert curators, and the author of a best-selling book series |
| 1:20.7 | about history's most fascinating people. |
| 1:23.5 | Yes, fasten your seatbelts, put your seats in the upright position, and prepare for takeoff. |
| 1:30.6 | This is Mysteries of Science. |
| 1:34.6 | A lot of our mysteries of science start with a big question. Are we alone in the universe? Is magic real? Could a monster have survived since the age of the dinosaurs? |
| 1:46.7 | This one is a little bit different though. This one starts with a person. |
| 1:52.1 | Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas on the 24th of July 1897. This was a time of new beginnings in the US |
| 2:00.0 | and it really only just come out of that period that we know as the Wild West and was beginning to resemble the country that we recognise today. |
| 2:09.8 | Almost straight away, Amelia made a name for herself as an adventurer, and her first flight, that's in inverted commas listeners, took place in 1904. |
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