Amelia Earhart: A Record Setting Pilot

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  • Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
  • In 1937 Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous women on the planet. For the last decade she had been upending stereotypes, smashing records and establishing herself as an international role model. As she set off for her greatest adventure, a round the world excursion, the whole world was watching. Then, suddenly, she was gone - disappeared. In this week’s Biographics we delve into the marvellous and mysterious life and death of Amelia Earhart.
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Комментарии • 254

  • @holly541
    @holly541 6 лет назад +254

    Get's a C- in a science class, promptly turns around and tries to apply to MIT. I mean, at least Earhart was an optimist...

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial 5 лет назад +10

      Holly Irons
      1. She was a woman accomplishing firsts during the original feminist movement.
      2. I’m not sure being accepted into MIT was quite the feat it is in the modern era.
      3. From all accounts her one true skill in life was her determination/stubbornness (Good for her).
      LOL Of course she did! 😝

    • @valentinisenberg7419
      @valentinisenberg7419 5 лет назад +1

      The avg iq has raised three points per generation basically, mixed with the population density we now have. It was just a matter of being smart enough back then. They didn’t have to turn down people who deserve to be involved. Now they only take so many of the ppl when all are basically qualified. Huge difference

    • @artkarounos816
      @artkarounos816 5 лет назад +1

      I was thinking the same 😂

    • @parzival8331
      @parzival8331 5 лет назад +1

      Wasn't it in math.

    • @pjvalenciano
      @pjvalenciano 5 лет назад +2

      That’s called “action instead of words”

  • @kirivt1785
    @kirivt1785 6 лет назад +20

    Hi, Just to let you know, I REALLY appreciate the time and effort you guys put into all your videos. Amelia Earhart is one of my all time favourite people in history, I had actually toyed with the idea of requesting a video on her a few weeks back.... Now I don't have to, Thanks and keep up the great work!!!!

  • @minim55
    @minim55 6 лет назад +69

    13.25 ..... When she landed in Ballyarnet in Derry my great uncle, James McGeady, was the first person she spoke to 😃

  • @DevilSurvivor69
    @DevilSurvivor69 Год назад +5

    Great video and one of ones I have enjoyed the most. I seen some people say she wasn't a great pilot at all, however she did all things you talked about and like you said they were better pilots out there. She was still a great pilot in her own right.

  • @lindaaumiller174
    @lindaaumiller174 6 лет назад +22

    I love her story. I have read and watched everything on her I can find. thank you for this Simon.

  • @vivianedepaula693
    @vivianedepaula693 6 лет назад +69

    I am addicted to this channel ✌🏽🔝

    • @ayoangie7099
      @ayoangie7099 5 лет назад +2

      ME TOO!

    • @Curtis69213
      @Curtis69213 4 года назад +1

      This channel needs a podcast. I’m so addicted to these narrations of discovering them two days ago

    • @bma1193
      @bma1193 3 года назад

      Same! Makes me want to create one of my own but for Black historical figures 😁❤

  • @DarqueQueen7
    @DarqueQueen7 6 лет назад +24

    Brilliant as always, Simon! I've always been interested in Earhardt and this has been the best bio I've seen to date. Kudos to you and your team and I can't wait for the next one. D.

  • @AcydDrop
    @AcydDrop 6 лет назад +5

    Love these, keep them coming!

  • @mikeblair7614
    @mikeblair7614 6 лет назад +4

    A really well done Bio, thanks.

  • @craigsnedden3051
    @craigsnedden3051 5 лет назад +2

    Excellent video, very informative!

  • @asteroses
    @asteroses 4 года назад +3

    Love Biographics as always! I had hoped you guys would've discussed TIGHAR's research on the Earhart case, though! Maybe an Earhart Part 2 video?

  • @thejamesshowtm9995
    @thejamesshowtm9995 6 лет назад +11

    Love these videos!!

  • @leahlemieux
    @leahlemieux 4 года назад

    thanks so much for creating an episode on Amelia!

  • @tommym7626
    @tommym7626 3 года назад +1

    Dude... You're the best. I've watched ALL these videos twice during quarantine!!

  • @speedy97979
    @speedy97979 6 лет назад +2

    Thank you so very much. Early aviation history is so intriguing

  • @Anthony-gq7dk
    @Anthony-gq7dk 4 года назад +1

    Again , super documentary , super delivery , addictive viewing .

  • @alexroush6836
    @alexroush6836 6 лет назад +20

    "Ad astra per aspera" To the stars through difficulty. My home state, Kansas' state motto...🌾

    • @stephanieh.777
      @stephanieh.777 4 года назад +2

      And there have even been astronauts from Kansas, to prove it true. ;-)

    • @eriktael
      @eriktael 3 года назад

      Per aspera ad astra i think. It does not change the point.

  • @aerisrei3396
    @aerisrei3396 6 лет назад +1

    I learned a lot I didn't know. Thank you Simon Whistler.

  • @scottneamon9933
    @scottneamon9933 6 лет назад +1

    Hi there I have to say that I love your videos great information! I was wondering if you had considered doing a biography on Morgan freeman

  • @joshuapatrick682
    @joshuapatrick682 5 лет назад +4

    Got to love RUclips, it’s advertisement of choice for this video was one for a vacation package to the Amelia Islands...

  • @jazenka99
    @jazenka99 6 лет назад +11

    Great content keep it up!

  • @jasonswoger410
    @jasonswoger410 6 лет назад

    I think this has been one of my favorite since the beginning of this channel

  • @D1it4FN
    @D1it4FN 5 лет назад +3

    A suggestion. Beryl Markham was a contemporary of Amelia Earhart's and lived quite an interesting life. She'd be a great subject for this series.

  • @Nathan-kd6vd
    @Nathan-kd6vd 6 лет назад +59

    Please make one on Jimi Hendrix?

  • @ehrldawg
    @ehrldawg 6 лет назад +5

    In Gordon Coopers autobiography,he said the concensus amongst the pilots of the day;she didn't apply the offset method of navigation. Before radar and GPS,a pilot would go a certain distance,say 100 miles. The pilot would veer to the left or right about 1 degree. When theyd go the 100 miles,they would turn to the right or left toward their landing target. This would help for accidental drift in the flight plan. If the pilot made a straight line for target,they might drift but not know to the right or the left. This especially done flying over the ocean,where there are no landmarks to help with navigation.

  • @Bryce3007
    @Bryce3007 4 года назад +1

    Great channel!

  • @debyglov
    @debyglov 4 года назад +3

    Please, if there's enough info available, make one of Bessie Coleman. Thanks!

  • @pandorasbox4238
    @pandorasbox4238 5 лет назад +6

    I remember having to have it explained to me why you must write out how you solve math problems and why. It never occurred to me to write it down, because I didn't solve the problem that way. It's not necessarily a lack of attention to detail, it's just that it feels like a pointless waste of time.

  • @stephanieh.777
    @stephanieh.777 4 года назад +3

    I watched a documentary a few years ago that seemed to prove they'd finally found Earhart's plane - pieces of wreckage that matched the make and model of her plane. It would be interesting if you could track down that information and make a second report about her.

  • @mstracymiles
    @mstracymiles 5 лет назад +2

    My grandfather, Erle W. Miles, Sr., knew Amelia E. (He was an early pilot with Pitcairn, then Eastern. ).

  • @lacerations7468
    @lacerations7468 6 лет назад

    These are actually really helpful now that I'm doing a history course. Especially those of Stalin and Rommel, those helped a *lot*. Thank you!

  • @davidmcmahon3779
    @davidmcmahon3779 6 лет назад +9

    Do sir David Attenborough

  • @DarkGlass824
    @DarkGlass824 5 лет назад

    Well done

  • @terribethreed8464
    @terribethreed8464 4 года назад

    I was born in Atchison KS & have always followed her history. So sad she didn't live to fulfill & see her dreams come to fruition.

  • @libertygiveme1987
    @libertygiveme1987 6 лет назад +17

    Amelia Earhart had a rather LONELY EXISTENCE! VERY SAD!!!! Such a LOVELY, SMART woman!!!! ALL girls should learn Amelia Earhart's story! Thank-You AGAIN Simon!!!!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +2

    0:40 - Chapter 1 - Beginnings
    5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hardships
    9:45 - Chapter 3 - First flight
    12:10 - Chapter 4 - A world record
    13:45 - Chapter 5 - Fame
    14:20 - Chapter 6 - The final challenge
    15:55 - Chapter 7 - The final flight
    18:25 - Chapter 8 - Disappeared
    19:10 - Chapter 9 - What happened ?

    • @dsg1992
      @dsg1992 3 года назад

      Thank you 🙌🏼

  • @tgmccoy1556
    @tgmccoy1556 3 года назад +1

    How about Jaqeline Cochran?
    Test pilot,air racer, founder of the WASP in WW2.

  • @dominican5683
    @dominican5683 4 года назад

    Wait this whole time I thought she disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle....weird. great video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

  • @zappawench6048
    @zappawench6048 4 года назад +4

    Amelia was so pretty, as well as intelligent, brave, talented and determined. If she'd been born 50 years later, she might have been the first woman astronaut, I reckon!

  • @Reed-it3ho
    @Reed-it3ho 6 лет назад

    Great video. Please do Mustafa Ataturk. I'd love to know more about him.

  • @teddywawwrzyniak104
    @teddywawwrzyniak104 6 лет назад +6

    A pretty pilot! I pray she rests in ☮️

  • @tncorgi92
    @tncorgi92 5 лет назад

    6:00 I've never seen a locomotive like that, with the little cabin in front. Anyone know more about those?

  • @landontakeamericaback2106
    @landontakeamericaback2106 4 года назад

    You are the best

  • @BriPhi-ob9sb
    @BriPhi-ob9sb 3 года назад +2

    What's the name of the song that plays at 19:06? I love the piano, it's beautiful.

    • @jamesdavis9036
      @jamesdavis9036 3 года назад

      It bugs me that he never gives the name of music he uses

  • @griffspeed
    @griffspeed 6 лет назад +2

    The place where she landed in South Wales is actualy pronounced Burry Port........
    I should know, I live about 8 miles from the place where there is a memorial there for her!

  • @PhoenixRiseinFlame
    @PhoenixRiseinFlame 5 лет назад +1

    You should do a video on Charles Lindberg!

  • @markhough1027
    @markhough1027 5 лет назад +1

    I love your channel. You do a great job. But.......... It's Derry not London Derry. I meant I don't call London DublinLondon

  • @karlp8484
    @karlp8484 6 лет назад +9

    But missed out the most interesting and commonly held theory of her disappearance: that she was shot down by a Japanese aircraft. Navigation was not an issue, there was a beacon on Howland Island but she never reached it. Constant radio transmissions from the plane would have made it easy for the Japanese who were in this contested area, to track her. Also it's on record that the Japanese thought she was spying/taking photographs of the islands she was crossing.

    • @artkarounos816
      @artkarounos816 5 лет назад

      Karl P If it’s on record why is it not official and only a theory and what spy plane sends constant radio messages and if the Japanese were listening they would have heard English and no reporting of military targets.

  • @marybethscherry2282
    @marybethscherry2282 4 года назад

    Have you ever done a biography of Bethany Hamilton?

  • @DrDolan2000
    @DrDolan2000 Год назад +1

    I'd like to believe she landed on an island and continued to live there until she died of old age. She was a warrior; and warriors don't go down easy

  • @dancoughlan8001
    @dancoughlan8001 6 лет назад +1

    As always Sir,, AWESOME JOB.
    IF You don't mind the pronouncement of Spadina Hospital. Phonetically Spa dye na.
    Sorry, I'm from that area. Not trying to be rude, just helpful.

  • @catherinehermansen4376
    @catherinehermansen4376 5 лет назад +1

    Please do one on Pancho Barnes, who could fly circles around Amelia.

  • @WarmPotato
    @WarmPotato 6 лет назад +1

    Why no long discussion about how she appears in Star Trek Voyager? That was one of the best episodes and it shows how even decades later, she's still a prominent figure in the culture! Also I like Star Trek lmao

  • @erikk77
    @erikk77 5 лет назад

    What's the make and model of the locomotive at 5:58?

  • @ieatgremlins
    @ieatgremlins 4 года назад +1

    Do a bio on Sylvia Plath

  • @tylerrebik7700
    @tylerrebik7700 5 лет назад +14

    Amelia was my 6th cousin, I found out via Ancestry.com. it's pretty awesome, we share a relative, James "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" Otis.

    • @brandonk8948
      @brandonk8948 4 года назад

      I love that nickname! I'm a cousin to her husband, Putnam.

    • @bma1193
      @bma1193 3 года назад +1

      There's another commenter who says they're cousins with her too!

  • @tistedmentality3715
    @tistedmentality3715 6 лет назад +17

    Amelia Earhart one of many women I look up to as a history teacher.

    • @tistedmentality3715
      @tistedmentality3715 6 лет назад +3

      Forgot to add future to the history teacher part.

    • @Fig_Bender
      @Fig_Bender 6 лет назад +7

      tisted mentality you're gonna teach future history? That's one class I wish they had when I was younger, or older

  • @omegasupreme1970
    @omegasupreme1970 5 лет назад

    for such a small state Iowa has a connection to a lot of famous people.

  • @GilbyMinaj
    @GilbyMinaj 3 года назад +1

    What a great role model 🤩

  • @n.l.4025
    @n.l.4025 3 года назад

    You did a Biographic on Amelia Earhart, but have not done one for Charles Lindbergh, who Amelia was named “Lindy” after. Will you, please, do a Biographic on C. Lindbergh? (Edit) I did very much enjoy watching the one about A. Earhart, as I do all of your videos that I watch, but I can’t seem to keep up with your rate of production by any watching I do. However, of course, I still watch when I can.

  • @brandyball2299
    @brandyball2299 8 дней назад

    Left out that she was a founding member of the Ninety-Nines in 1929 and became the first president of the organization.

  • @pointly
    @pointly 4 месяца назад +1

    “Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”
    - Amelia Earhart final letter to her husband

  • @petejemmott7657
    @petejemmott7657 3 года назад +1

    In 2005, I was on a military historic tour of the Pacific. While on the island of Saipan, our guide showed us the prison building that they claim the Japanese held her captive in for most of the war. and, apparently she died there of most likely dysentery

  • @traeherren2269
    @traeherren2269 5 лет назад +1

    I'd love to see a video on Ric Flair

  • @Caelia7
    @Caelia7 2 года назад +1

    What an amazing woman. She never gave in.

  • @manfredrichthofen2494
    @manfredrichthofen2494 4 года назад

    With so many bio requests for Mr.Simon to do..
    his vlogs will make him " The Last Man Standing.."

  • @sonnythirteen
    @sonnythirteen 6 лет назад

    Can you guys do Wendell Scott

  • @davidkingsley8940
    @davidkingsley8940 2 года назад

    Anyone know the name of the piano song?

  • @Glen.Danielsen
    @Glen.Danielsen 5 лет назад

    Simon, perhaps a video on Brigham Young? Or Joseph Smith the Latter-day Saint prophet? Cheers to your great work!!

  • @cassandraralph5906
    @cassandraralph5906 3 года назад +1

    An amazing woman, it's a great pity that she and her possibly drunk navigator ended up disappearing over the Pacific Ocean, I have a lot of new theories as to why this happened. But they will take too long to explain. Even so we will probably never really know that happened! I learned a lot today! Thank you, Simon!

  • @Curtis69213
    @Curtis69213 4 года назад

    Will u do one on billy graham or Marvin Gaye?

  • @electricmaster23
    @electricmaster23 6 лет назад +5

    I know you're a British lad at heart, so I'd love it if you could do a Biographics episode for Jay Kay of the band Jamiroquai. He had a particularly rough start to life, which I think makes his successes in music all the more sweeter.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 6 лет назад

      electricmaster23
      Never heard of him. Very interested. Thanks!

    • @t.jackson2613
      @t.jackson2613 6 лет назад

      One hit wonder?

    • @electricmaster23
      @electricmaster23 6 лет назад +2

      Only if you're American and don't really follow the music scene. Jamiroquai has sold more than 26 million albums worldwide, including the record for the best-selling funk album of all time (which was _Travelling Without Moving_ in 1997).

  • @EatingPizzaLikeaCookie
    @EatingPizzaLikeaCookie 6 лет назад +1

    Please do Princess Diana

  • @MsMickylopez
    @MsMickylopez 3 года назад

    A biography about Franz Josef Mesmer would be nice.

  • @andiduke1
    @andiduke1 6 лет назад

    Londonderry is in Northern Ireland....

  • @josephishkabibble5863
    @josephishkabibble5863 2 года назад

    Wow, my whole life I never knew there was a another person (Noonan) along with her!!!!!!

  • @saladbruh2625
    @saladbruh2625 6 лет назад +2

    Can you do a documentary about Josip Broz Tito?

  • @Rodolphus1
    @Rodolphus1 4 года назад +3

    Amelia is my 6th cousin, 6x removed through the Otis family.

  • @David_Me825
    @David_Me825 6 лет назад +12

    Please do a Bio of Abu Hajaar, the most awkward ISIS member.
    Legends says he is still rolling to this day..

  • @preknife
    @preknife 6 лет назад +3

    Pls do Heinrich Himmler

    • @preknife
      @preknife 6 лет назад +1

      blackzed I posted it before he did it

  • @FranFerioli
    @FranFerioli 3 года назад +1

    9:00 the summer of 1918 or 2020 is a very bad time to come down with influenza and pneumonia...

  • @blindscience1701
    @blindscience1701 3 года назад

    she's chillin in a tube some where in the delta quadrant. damn aliens

  • @twilightluminance3252
    @twilightluminance3252 6 лет назад +2

    ADMIRAL Nimitz’s immortal words to acclaimed KCBS investigative correspondent, and Amelia Earhart researcher Fred A. Goerner, “Now that you’re going to Washington, Fred, I want to tell you Earhart and her navigator did go down in the Marshalls and were picked up by the Japanese.” A Lockheed engineer, interviewed by Randall Brink and F. Goerner, claimed to have installed two Fairchild spy cameras on the Electra 10-E. The US govt. built a Howland Island airstrip, docked a Coast Guard ship to guide Amelia, created flightplan worldwide logistics, and assigned a 17-day Navy Task Force search, for her clandestine surveillance using celebrity status as cover, not for her daredevil aviation. ONI discovered Earhart’s captivity through Japanese radio intercepts and a 1937 Jaluit Atoll intelligence photo. ONI, Adm. Nimitz, USMC Gens. Erskine, Vandegrift, and Watson, the 2nd Marine Division commander that invaded Saipan in 1944, substantiated A. Earhart and F. Noonan perished on Saipan for espionage through evidence found, and interviews conducted by military intelligence services. These famous highly decorated flag officers made this pronouncement, with no axe to grind, and with no ulterior motives. Hundreds of witnesses from Mili, Jaluit, Kwajalein Atolls, and Saipan, placed her in Micronesia, west of Howland Island. Scores of US military witnesses (Thomas Devine) observed Amelia’s Lockheed Electra in hanger,(Julious E. Nabers) ordered destroyed, (Robert Wallack) her briefcase and personal effects recovered on Saipan. In 1964, Everett Henson Jr. of Sacramento, and Bill G. Burks of Dallas, came forward as the two former U.S. Marines who recovered skeletal remains of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in an unmarked grave, with Tracy Griswold supervising, outside a small graveyard on Saipan in July of 1944, and placed them in metal canisters for transport to the U.S. For more substantiation, see Mike Campbell’s ‘earharttruth.wordpress.com’, & Rich Martini’s ‘earhartonsaipan.com’. Follow the military’s, Saipanese and Marshallese corroborated facts, not CIA-paid scientist or mouthpiece fraudulence. Amelia’s Earhart’s 1937-1944 last days captive are classified and suppressed by the federal govt., due to political (FDR) elections, wartime secrecy, and post-war diplomacy.

  • @sharongill9837
    @sharongill9837 4 года назад

    Now that I have gone down the rabbit hole I question everything, nothing in this world is what we think it is......

  • @Itsfineweerallfine
    @Itsfineweerallfine 3 года назад

    How about a biography of Nina Samone?

  • @Ruby321123
    @Ruby321123 3 года назад +1

    Probably my favourite woman in history. 🙂

  • @dennistesolat5346
    @dennistesolat5346 6 лет назад

    Wonderful. The "I" in Spadina is pronounced "eye"

    • @Fig_Bender
      @Fig_Bender 6 лет назад +1

      Dennis Tesolat Simon often misprnounces, or even adds, syllables

  • @freshlycutlawn4396
    @freshlycutlawn4396 6 лет назад

    Do J. D. salinger he's my favorite author.

  • @GaryNumanfan-uo3nz
    @GaryNumanfan-uo3nz 5 лет назад

    Bury Point?? It’s Burry Port.

  • @Calum...
    @Calum... 6 лет назад +1

    It's Derry

  • @Andrewflynn16
    @Andrewflynn16 6 лет назад

    As someone from Newfoundland I'm guna leave this
    Sounds like New-frown-land without the r

  • @Janinex98
    @Janinex98 6 лет назад

    the thumbnail was broken for me

  • @Catseye189
    @Catseye189 Месяц назад

    Dang, I'm trying to afford groceries and she was buying planes!!!

  • @SlimThrull
    @SlimThrull 6 лет назад +2

    Parallelepipedon? Huh. That's what I named my goldfish.

  • @philipwilkinson3088
    @philipwilkinson3088 5 лет назад +2

    What about Amy Johnson

  • @Amy-gc3kb
    @Amy-gc3kb 5 лет назад

    amazing. she’s almost exactly 100 years older than me.

  • @brandonk8948
    @brandonk8948 4 года назад

    Side trivia fact about Amelia's husband. I have been doing some extensive family research and recently discovered some fun facts about being related to Amelia Earhart through being a distant cousin to her husband, George P. Putnam. We share the same grandfather from Massachusetts, Lt. Nathaniel Putnam 1619-1700. The story about the family's connection to George gets even cooler.
    My 2nd great-grandfather, Robert William Sawyer was a lawyer who moved out west to avoid a scandal that had occurred with his marriage. He relocated in the small community at the time of Bend, Oregon. While there he would write anonymous news articles regarding local events and would humbly submit them beneath the editor's door of The Bulletin, a local newspaper owned by George P. Putnam. One day though he was caught and confronted by Putnam who was so impressed by these anonymous submissions that he offered my grandfather a job on his staff. He accepted and within a few years Putnam declared he wished to pull up stakes and move on. He offered the newspaper to my grandfather who continued running it for several years thereafter. It was exactly ten years later that George would go on to marry Amelia Earhart. Through my research I also discovered that unbeknown to both of these men was that they were both distant eighth generational cousins.
    Granted, I acknowledge I'm not in direct affiliation or heir of Earhart's legacy but it really cool discovering the family connections through backroom history and family geneologies.

  • @lesslisilverman
    @lesslisilverman 6 лет назад

    True story bro.

  • @fairplaylad420
    @fairplaylad420 4 года назад

    He makes a little mistake in this video. He says 'Londonderry' but I'm sure he meant 'Derry'.

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples Год назад +1

    I just wish we knew what happened to her and Fred.