WI: Amelia Earhart Completes Her Trip Around the World

Archibald

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See her friend Jacqueline Cochran career and you'll get an idea how far Amelia could go after WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran

Cochran set woman speed records flying a F-104 starfighter in the 60's. Cochran also lobbied for early women astronaut, but failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_13


I wonder if Amelia could do better; having women astronaut on Apollo would be cool, but the toilet (or lack of) was horrible.The main issue for a woman would be pissing.

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A lot of prestige for her to start with.

She's a few things in her future she could choose from after that-lecture tours, marriage, other piloting challenges.
 
A lot of prestige for her to start with.

She's a few things in her future she could choose from after that-lecture tours, marriage, other piloting challenges.

for sure Lecture tours being she had already been doing some before her flight.

she was 39 so I dont know how much stuff in the 1960's she would do.

as for the marriage she was already married.
 
Didn't the disappearance add to the mystique? No one has heard of Cochrane.

Those people who are only interested in pop culture will know the name Earhart as the woman who disappeared. Those people who are interested in history, aviation history, and women in aviation history will and do know the name Jackie Cochran.
 

Loghain

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Those people who are only interested in pop culture will know the name Earhart as the woman who disappeared. Those people who are interested in history, aviation history, and women in aviation history will and do know the name Jackie Cochran.

interested in history and aviation history. first time im hearing about her.
 

Driftless

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Might she have been involved with Jackie Cochrane ferrying aircraft to Europe, or other long duration flights during the war? Her credibility and name recognition would have helped smooth the path for including more female pilots in that critical work.
 
Might she have been involved with Jackie Cochrane ferrying aircraft to Europe, or other long duration flights during the war? Her credibility and name recognition would have helped smooth the path for including more female pilots in that critical work.
I could see that. for sure doing stuff to sell war bonds during the war.
 

Archibald

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Might she have been involved with Jackie Cochrane ferrying aircraft to Europe, or other long duration flights during the war? Her credibility and name recognition would have helped smooth the path for including more female pilots in that critical work.

She knew Lindbergh pretty well (early on she was considered a feminine clone of him, something she did not really appreciated). Because of his age and prestige (and also his pro-Nazi statements...) Lindbergh didn't do much in WWII, except some missions over the Pacific.

Amy Johnson / Mollison ferried RAF aircraft during WWII and lost her life in 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson

Jackie Cochrane helped creating the WASP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Airforce_Service_Pilots

I think Amelia would have joined the WASP and ferried aircrafts, as suggested in the post above.

Her health was more fragile than Cochrane (she had got turberculosis in her youth) so she may have not piloted fast jets or live long enough.
 
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She knew Lindbergh pretty well (early on she was considered a feminine clone of him, something she did not really appreciated). Because of his age and prestige (and also his pro-Nazi statements...) Lindbergh didn't do much in WWII, except some missions over the Pacific.

Helped with development of the Corsair and was instrumental in increasing the range of the P-38.
 

Driftless

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If she survives the flight, at what point does any public disclosure happen about any aerial espionage work she may have/may not have done for the US government? God knows there's a cottage industry sprung up around the multitude of ideas on that front. After WW2? 25 to 50 years later? Only by Freedom of Information Act?
 
If she survives the flight, at what point does any public disclosure happen about any aerial espionage work she may have/may not have done for the US government? God knows there's a cottage industry sprung up around the multitude of ideas on that front. After WW2? 25 to 50 years later? Only by Freedom of Information Act?

Why would there be any public disclosure of aerial espionage work she may not have done? There's also a cottage industry for Bigfoot, Noah's Ark, Nessie, Aliens, Nazi flying bells et al.
 

Driftless

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Why would there be any public disclosure of aerial espionage work she may not have done? There's also a cottage industry for Bigfoot, Noah's Ark, Nessie, Aliens, Nazi flying bells et al.
It's kind of a one-way deal: some government record acknowledges that Earhart or Noonan took some grainy oblique photos of Japanese held islands - that's one thing. If she didn't make that conscious diversion from her listed flight path, she could address that claim herself in person. Whether or not that sways the conspiracy theory folks is an altogether different deal. "Ha! Her denial only proves she was a spy. "
 
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It's kind of a one-way deal: some government record acknowledges that Earhart or Noonan took some grainy oblique photos of Japanese held islands - that's one thing. If she didn't make that conscious diversion from her listed flight path, she could address that claim herself in person. Whether or not that sways the conspiracy theory folks is an altogether different deal. "Ha! Her denial only proves she was a spy. Maybe she got booted out of the alien mother ship's dead-letter-office several years later and crashed near Roswell. Ya never know, do ya?"

Make up all the stories you want. Amelia's plane was eaten by the Great South Pacific Giant Flying Carp, oft rumored to frequent the area of Howland Island, and the only evidence that remains is the corroded bits of aluminum in the stool of a monster fish on the ocean floor. Don't be silly. It's nothing to do with Aliens.
 

Archibald

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Ah bravo c'est malin ! :p

I meant that Earhart spying sounds pretty stupid theory to me. Wasn't it debunked a long time ago ?
 
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hmm, if Earhart survives, she would undoubtedly IMO be a member of the WASPs. Since she was a strong advocate for the Aviation and female aviators in particular, she was president after all of the Ninety-Nines. I do wonder if she might have been able to convince the House to militarize the WASPs, it was narrowly defeated in 1944. That could have some interesting impacts on social history of the US. Speaking of that I wonder if her fame could help get the Equal Rights Amendment passed, another thing that she was passionate about.
 
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