Amelia Earhart shot to fame in 1928 when she flew across the Atlantic as the passenger of Wilmer Stulz and Louis Gordon in a Fokker aeroplane. Earhart is pictured above in Newfoundland with the plane, called 'Friendship'. The journey to Llanelli, Wales, took 20 hours and 40 minutes.
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Picture past: June 17, 1928, Earhart crosses the Atlantic
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