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Google's latest Doodle celebrates the birthday of one of history's most famous pilots.
Commemorating the 115th birthday of Amelia Earhart, today's Google Doodle portrays the pilot with her scarf fluttering in the wind as she stands next to a Lockheed Vega 5b, the same plane she flew when she completed her cross-Atlantic trip in 1932.
Earhart followed that voyage, in 1935, by becoming the first person to fly along across the Pacific. Of course, the aviatrix is better known today for her tragic disappearance in 1937 when she and navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
Despite an extensive search at the time, no traces of the two or their plane were ever found. For decades, the prevailing belief seemed to be that she and Noonan had died after crashing their plane into the ocean. But researchers at TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) believe the two actually managed to safely land on the island of Nikumaroro.
The search for Amelia Earhart's craft, 75 years later (pictures)
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