The obsessive urge to get airborne unites the singing dreamers in ''Take Flight,'' an ambitious concept musical about the pioneering spirits of American aviation making its United States premiere at the McCarter Theater Center here. On a windy Southern beach Orville and Wilbur Wright pore over physics statistics to a disjointed melody, their...
Amelia Earhart, the American aviator who disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in 1937 while trying to become the first woman to fly around the globe, didn't wear bodices, as far as I can tell from the new biographical movie starring Hilary Swank. If Earhart had, it's a good bet that Richard Gere, who plays her sensitive, supportive, quietly...

FAME is fleeting, of course, but certain forms of it are stickier than others. More than seven decades after her death the aviatrix Amelia Earhart still fascinates. Called Lady Lindy for her willingness to attempt ill-advised, even foolhardy feats, she has been the subject of more than 100 books, and her name is plastered on bridges, Navy ships,...
Amelia Mary Earhart (24. juli, 1897 – savnet fra 2. juli, 1937 og erklæret død 5. januar 1939), var en amerikansk pilot som under mystiske omstændigheder forsvandt nær Howlandø i Stillehavet, mens hun var ved at flyve jorden rundt.