Amelia Earhart sits in front of her Lockheed Vega in December 1934, photographed as she prepares for a planned solo flight from Hawaii to the United States. The streamlined skin of the Vega fills the background, a reminder that this small aircraft will have to cross more than two thousand miles of open Pacific. A few weeks after this picture was made, in January 1935, Earhart would complete that Honolulu to Oakland flight and become the first person to fly it alone, adding another line to a record that had already changed what people imagined a pilot could be.
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Amelia Earhart sits in front of her Lockheed Vega in December 1934, photographed as she prepares for a planned solo flight from Hawaii to the United States. The streamlined skin of the Vega fills the background, a reminder that this small aircraft will have to cross more than two thousand miles of open Pacific. A few weeks after this picture was made, in January 1935, Earhart would complete that Honolulu to Oakland flight and become the first person to fly it alone, adding another line to a record that had already changed what people imagined a pilot could be.
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