Earhart lives

I don't know about the subject to offer any concrete suggestions, but I've gotta believe that her success would have had a positive effect on the role/place of women in aeronautics.
 
More flights and publicity.

Then in 1940, during WW2, she applies to join the RAF Eagle Squadron but is turned down. Undeterred and emulating that other pioneer of female long-distance flights, the redoubtable Amy Johnson, she joins the Air Transport Auxiliary. In January 1941 Earhart, not Johnson, is selected to fly the Airspeed Oxford plane from Blackpool to Kidlington, a flight which ends in disaster and her death in the River Thames.

In 1949, a joint British-American around the world 'peace' flight of 43 planes with all female crews led by Amy Johnson takes place. The number of planes is chosen as Earhart was 43 at the time of her death.
 

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The problem is, the Japanese took over all of the German islands, and, as far as we know now, Earhart crashed and survived, and was captured by the Japanese. My dad read a book about new information that was found only 10 years ago, that she and her copilot were executed. WI she does not crash, or manages to land somewhere and finds help? She is a HUGE hero, bigger than Lindberg. Way more women pilots, and she would give the female ferry pilots a HUGE boost. I doubt you would get American combat pilots in World War 2, but maybe in Vietnam. Then again, maybe not.
 
It would depend on what she did after completing the round the world flight. There would be a lot of publicity at first, but it would die down after awhile. In many ways the enduring mystery surrounding her disappearance is what has kept her famous.
 
It would depend on what she did after completing the round the world flight. There would be a lot of publicity at first, but it would die down after awhile. In many ways the enduring mystery surrounding her disappearance is what has kept her famous.

Charles Lindbergh did not crash, yet he remained famous.
 
The problem is, the Japanese took over all of the German islands, and, as far as we know now, Earhart crashed and survived, and was captured by the Japanese. My dad read a book about new information that was found only 10 years ago, that she and her copilot were executed. WI she does not crash, or manages to land somewhere and finds help? She is a HUGE hero, bigger than Lindberg. Way more women pilots, and she would give the female ferry pilots a HUGE boost. I doubt you would get American combat pilots in World War 2, but maybe in Vietnam. Then again, maybe not.

The WI is about her successfully completing her around the world flight.


WI Earhart makes the round the world trip, what happens next?

Perhaps in TTL's "Apollo space program" a few of the astronauts would be women.
 
I could definitely see a greater role for women in aviation as a result. She could be around for quite some time. In addition, she would be the first FLYER to complete a route around the world of that length. In WWII she may not be involved in combat directly, but she could be in the WAFS or Civil Air Patrol...or even pilot training!
Perhaps after the war she could become a test pilot of sorts like Jacqueline Cochran.
 
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