Amelia Earhart – Airplane Babe

Posted on November 20, 2009 by lmharnisch
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Los Angeles Times file photos
After the release of “Amelia,” the film about Amelia Earhart, I thought it would be fun to get into The Times’ photo archives and see what we had. Here are two pictures dated March 25, 1937, in which an anonymous photographer evidently tried to get some glamour poses of her. In the left photo, she’s looking through the radio antenna from the aircraft. In the right photo, she’s sort of draped herself against the propeller of her airplane. Earhart was a good sport about these poses – but honestly.

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1 Response to Amelia Earhart – Airplane Babe

  1. fibber mcgee's avatar fibber mcgee says:
    November 20, 2009 at 8:35 am

    Amelia was no slouch at getting plenty of publicity for herself. It was part of the game in those days, talking up aviation. On her first trans-Atlantic flight, which got her a ton of publicity, she was really nothing more than baggage — simply a passenger.

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