Okay okay i am a day late but it is still worth having a small tribute to Amelia Earhart, who went missing 70 years ago yesterday. I found this picture and article from the flight archive reporting her Atlantic crossing in 1932:

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1932/1932%20-%200509.pdf 

this one documents the calling off of the search for her aircraft in the south pacific:

 http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1937/1937%20-%202069.pdf

 
Interesting turn of phrase from the journalist:

 It seems that investigators still haven't lost hope in finding her, as they are going to resume a search in the South Pacific:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/search_for_amelia_1 

According to the story the conditons are as follows:

"The conditions during the search will be punishing, with the explorers forced to contend with dense jungle vegetation, 100-degree heat, sharks that reside in a lagoon in the middle of the island and voracious crabs that make it necessary to wear shoes at all times."

Think i'll stay here thanks  

Aviatrix (love that word) Amelia Earheart is one of the people featured in Take Flight, a new musical currently previewing in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory. According to the website:

This exclusive world premiere tells the inspirational stories of the pioneers of flight; The Wright brothers, Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh.

A phenomenal cast star in this limited 10-week run, lead by: Sally Ann Triplett (Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls) as Amelia Earhart; Ian Bartholomew (Into the Woods, Tommy) as George Putnam; Clive Carter (Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods – Olivier Award nominee: Best Performance in a Supporting Role) as Otto Lillienthal, Michael Jibson (Our House – Olivier Award nominee: Best Actor) as Charles Lindbergh, Sam Kenyon (Sweeney Todd, Jerry Springer: The Opera) as Orville Wright and Elliot Levey (His Dark Materials) as Wilbur Wright.

Also featuring: Christopher Colley, Ian Connigham, John Conroy, Edward Gower, Kaisa Hammarlund and Liza Pulman.

The prestigious American writers Richard Maltby and David Shire have written many shows together including Closer than Ever, Starting Here, Starting Now and Baby. Individually David Shire is an Oscar winning film score composer (All The Presidents Men, Norma Rae and most recently Zodiac). Richard Maltby wrote the lyrics for Miss Saigon and he devised and directed Ain’t Misbehavin (Tony – Best Director) and Fosse. John Weidman is a long time Sondheim collaborator, he wrote the book for Assassins, Pacific Overtures and Bounce.

 

Just seen that they are makinf a film about Amelia, starring the Swankster (i.e Hillary Swank), star of Boys Don't Cry and the incredibly good but sad Million Dollar Baby. Calling it Amelia, it will also star Richard Gere, unfortunately