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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I read somewhere recently that she was not alone in that airplane. She had a man co-pilot. Is this true or not?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes, she was with Fred Noonan, her navigator.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Great, that's what I thought. So why does nobody ever talk about him? Surely coconut crabs feasted on him too.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The crabs wanted Noona-him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So why was Amelia Earhart famed for being the first woman to fly solo around the world? She was not solo.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Because she wasn't. She was the first woman to fly Solo across the Atlantic. The fated flight would have seen her become the first woman to Fly around the world, no mention of being Solo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Because people have bad memories and aren't good at spotting precise language choices in the first place.