Amelia Earhart: A Record Setting Pilot

[@holly541]

Get's a C- in a science class, promptly turns around and tries to apply to MIT. I mean, at least Earhart was an optimist...

[@negativeindustrial]

Holly Irons 1. She was a woman accomplishing firsts during the original feminist movement. 2. I’m not sure being accepted into MIT was quite the feat it is in the modern era. 3. From all accounts her one true skill in life was her determination/stubbornness (Good for her). LOL Of course she did! 😝

[@valentinisenberg7419]

The avg iq has raised three points per generation basically, mixed with the population density we now have. It was just a matter of being smart enough back then. They didn’t have to turn down people who deserve to be involved. Now they only take so many of the ppl when all are basically qualified. Huge difference

[@artkarounos816]

I was thinking the same 😂

[@parzival8331]

Wasn't it in math.

[@pjvalenciano]

That’s called “action instead of words”

[@DevilSurvivor69]

Great video and one of ones I have enjoyed the most. I seen some people say she wasn't a great pilot at all, however she did all things you talked about and like you said they were better pilots out there. She was still a great pilot in her own right.

[@kirivt1785]

Hi, Just to let you know, I REALLY appreciate the time and effort you guys put into all your videos. Amelia Earhart is one of my all time favourite people in history, I had actually toyed with the idea of requesting a video on her a few weeks back.... Now I don't have to, Thanks and keep up the great work!!!!

[@lindaaumiller174]

I love her story. I have read and watched everything on her I can find. thank you for this Simon.

[@DarqueQueen7]

Brilliant as always, Simon! I've always been interested in Earhardt and this has been the best bio I've seen to date. Kudos to you and your team and I can't wait for the next one. D.

[@minim55]

13.25 ..... When she landed in Ballyarnet in Derry my great uncle, James McGeady, was the first person she spoke to 😃

[@lucygirl4926]

Oh wow, really? Very cool indeed...

[@christopherharvey5468]

Sarah Mc Laughlin so cool.

[@asteroses]

Love Biographics as always! I had hoped you guys would've discussed TIGHAR's research on the Earhart case, though! Maybe an Earhart Part 2 video?

[@Anthony-gq7dk]

Again , super documentary , super delivery , addictive viewing .

[@tommym7626]

Dude... You're the best. I've watched ALL these videos twice during quarantine!!

[@mikeblair7614]

A really well done Bio, thanks.

[@vivianedepaula693]

I am addicted to this channel ✌🏽🔝

[@ayoangie7099]

ME TOO!

[@Curtis69213]

This channel needs a podcast. I’m so addicted to these narrations of discovering them two days ago

[@bma1193]

Same! Makes me want to create one of my own but for Black historical figures 😁❤

[@thejamesshowtm9995]

Love these videos!!

[@craigsnedden3051]

Excellent video, very informative!

[@AcydDrop]

Love these, keep them coming!

[@speedy97979]

Thank you so very much. Early aviation history is so intriguing

[@leahlemieux]

thanks so much for creating an episode on Amelia!

[@ehrldawg]

In Gordon Coopers autobiography,he said the concensus amongst the pilots of the day;she didn't apply the offset method of navigation. Before radar and GPS,a pilot would go a certain distance,say 100 miles. The pilot would veer to the left or right about 1 degree. When theyd go the 100 miles,they would turn to the right or left toward their landing target. This would help for accidental drift in the flight plan. If the pilot made a straight line for target,they might drift but not know to the right or the left. This especially done flying over the ocean,where there are no landmarks to help with navigation.

[@terrycarlson2064]

Did she die with her husband?

[@debyglov]

Please, if there's enough info available, make one of Bessie Coleman. Thanks!

[@joshuapatrick682]

Got to love KZbin, it’s advertisement of choice for this video was one for a vacation package to the Amelia Islands...

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Beginnings 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Hardships 9:45 - Chapter 3 - First flight 12:10 - Chapter 4 - A world record 13:45 - Chapter 5 - Fame 14:20 - Chapter 6 - The final challenge 15:55 - Chapter 7 - The final flight 18:25 - Chapter 8 - Disappeared 19:10 - Chapter 9 - What happened ?

[@daxx299]

Thank you 🙌🏼

[@pointly]

“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” - Amelia Earhart final letter to her husband

[@alexroush6836]

"Ad astra per aspera" To the stars through difficulty. My home state, Kansas' state motto...🌾

[@sth.777]

And there have even been astronauts from Kansas, to prove it true. ;-)

[@eriktael]

Per aspera ad astra i think. It does not change the point.

[@aerisrei3396]

I learned a lot I didn't know. Thank you Simon Whistler.

[@D1it4FN]

A suggestion. Beryl Markham was a contemporary of Amelia Earhart's and lived quite an interesting life. She'd be a great subject for this series.

[@sth.777]

I watched a documentary a few years ago that seemed to prove they'd finally found Earhart's plane - pieces of wreckage that matched the make and model of her plane. It would be interesting if you could track down that information and make a second report about her.

[@mstracymiles]

My grandfather, Erle W. Miles, Sr., knew Amelia E. (He was an early pilot with Pitcairn, then Eastern. ).

[@jasonswoger410]

I think this has been one of my favorite since the beginning of this channel

[@Nathan-kd6vd]

Please make one on Jimi Hendrix?

[@jonhope248]

Also Stevie Ray Vaughn

[@michaelbatts5655]

Ronnie James Dio as well

[@jamier65551]

Wish granted

[@Bryce3007]

Great channel!

[@Biographics]

Thanks :)

[@scottneamon9933]

Hi there I have to say that I love your videos great information! I was wondering if you had considered doing a biography on Morgan freeman

[@jazenka99]

Great content keep it up!

[@libertygiveme1987]

Amelia Earhart had a rather LONELY EXISTENCE! VERY SAD!!!! Such a LOVELY, SMART woman!!!! ALL girls should learn Amelia Earhart's story! Thank-You AGAIN Simon!!!!

[@lucygirl4926]

Stop screaming, please lol

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@lucygirl4926 lol

[@RealFifeCarJourneys]

Donald?

[@terribethreed8464]

I was born in Atchison KS & have always followed her history. So sad she didn't live to fulfill & see her dreams come to fruition.

[@pandorasbox4238]

I remember having to have it explained to me why you must write out how you solve math problems and why. It never occurred to me to write it down, because I didn't solve the problem that way. It's not necessarily a lack of attention to detail, it's just that it feels like a pointless waste of time.

[@BriPhi-ob9sb]

What's the name of the song that plays at 19:06? I love the piano, it's beautiful.

[@jamesdavis9036]

It bugs me that he never gives the name of music he uses

[@DrDolan2000]

I'd like to believe she landed on an island and continued to live there until she died of old age. She was a warrior; and warriors don't go down easy

[@teddywawwrzyniak104]

A pretty pilot! I pray she rests in ☮️

[@davidmcmahon3779]

Do sir David Attenborough

[@zappawench6048]

Amelia was so pretty, as well as intelligent, brave, talented and determined. If she'd been born 50 years later, she might have been the first woman astronaut, I reckon!

[@Caelia7]

What an amazing woman. She never gave in.

[@tgmccoy1556]

How about Jaqeline Cochran? Test pilot,air racer, founder of the WASP in WW2.

[@lacerations7468]

These are actually really helpful now that I'm doing a history course. Especially those of Stalin and Rommel, those helped a *lot*. Thank you!

[@AlexLunyov]

Wonderful unique biography of a brave and foolhardy pilot Amelia. I wish I could meet her and shake her hand.

[@karlp8484]

But missed out the most interesting and commonly held theory of her disappearance: that she was shot down by a Japanese aircraft. Navigation was not an issue, there was a beacon on Howland Island but she never reached it. Constant radio transmissions from the plane would have made it easy for the Japanese who were in this contested area, to track her. Also it's on record that the Japanese thought she was spying/taking photographs of the islands she was crossing.

[@artkarounos816]

Karl P If it’s on record why is it not official and only a theory and what spy plane sends constant radio messages and if the Japanese were listening they would have heard English and no reporting of military targets.

[@tistedmentality3715]

Amelia Earhart one of many women I look up to as a history teacher.

[@tistedmentality3715]

Forgot to add future to the history teacher part.

[@Fig_Bender]

tisted mentality you're gonna teach future history? That's one class I wish they had when I was younger, or older

[@GilbyMinaj]

What a great role model 🤩

[@Reed2600]

Great video. Please do Mustafa Ataturk. I'd love to know more about him.

[@catherinehermansen4376]

Please do one on Pancho Barnes, who could fly circles around Amelia.

[@n.l.4025]

You did a Biographic on Amelia Earhart, but have not done one for Charles Lindbergh, who Amelia was named “Lindy” after. Will you, please, do a Biographic on C. Lindbergh? (Edit) I did very much enjoy watching the one about A. Earhart, as I do all of your videos that I watch, but I can’t seem to keep up with your rate of production by any watching I do. However, of course, I still watch when I can.

[@petejemmott7657]

In 2005, I was on a military historic tour of the Pacific. While on the island of Saipan, our guide showed us the prison building that they claim the Japanese held her captive in for most of the war. and, apparently she died there of most likely dysentery

[@multiyapples]

I just wish we knew what happened to her and Fred.

[@ieatgremlins]

Do a bio on Sylvia Plath

[@dominican5683]

Wait this whole time I thought she disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle....weird. great video👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@tncorgi92]

6:00 I've never seen a locomotive like that, with the little cabin in front. Anyone know more about those?

[@daviking-88]

Anyone know the name of the piano song?

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

You should do a video on Charles Lindberg!

[@FranFerioli]

9:00 the summer of 1918 or 2020 is a very bad time to come down with influenza and pneumonia...

[@marybethscherry2282]

Have you ever done a biography of Bethany Hamilton?

[@omegasupreme1970]

for such a small state Iowa has a connection to a lot of famous people.

[@tylerrebik7700]

Amelia was my 6th cousin, I found out via Ancestry.com. it's pretty awesome, we share a relative, James "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" Otis.

[@brandonk8948]

I love that nickname! I'm a cousin to her husband, Putnam.

[@bma1193]

There's another commenter who says they're cousins with her too!

[@griffspeed]

The place where she landed in South Wales is actualy pronounced Burry Port........ I should know, I live about 8 miles from the place where there is a memorial there for her!

[@northernchaotic7196]

Amelia= the First, Famous Closet Lesbian.

[@landonoletymer]

You are the best

[@markhough1027]

I love your channel. You do a great job. But.......... It's Derry not London Derry. I meant I don't call London DublinLondon

[@Ruby321123]

Probably my favourite woman in history. 🙂

[@DarkGlass824]

Well done

[@erikk77]

What's the make and model of the locomotive at 5:58?

[@manfredrichthofen2494]

With so many bio requests for Mr.Simon to do.. his vlogs will make him " The Last Man Standing.."

[@electricmaster23]

I know you're a British lad at heart, so I'd love it if you could do a Biographics episode for Jay Kay of the band Jamiroquai. He had a particularly rough start to life, which I think makes his successes in music all the more sweeter.

[@christineparis5607]

electricmaster23 Never heard of him. Very interested. Thanks!

[@t.jackson2613]

One hit wonder?

[@electricmaster23]

Only if you're American and don't really follow the music scene. Jamiroquai has sold more than 26 million albums worldwide, including the record for the best-selling funk album of all time (which was _Travelling Without Moving_ in 1997).

[@sharongill9837]

Now that I have gone down the rabbit hole I question everything, nothing in this world is what we think it is......

[@Curtis69213]

Will u do one on billy graham or Marvin Gaye?

[@saladbruh2625]

Can you do a documentary about Josip Broz Tito?

[@richardsanchez9190]

He did

[@dancoughlan8001]

As always Sir,, AWESOME JOB. IF You don't mind the pronouncement of Spadina Hospital. Phonetically Spa dye na. Sorry, I'm from that area. Not trying to be rude, just helpful.

[@MsMickylopez]

A biography about Franz Josef Mesmer would be nice.

[@EatingPizzaLikeaCookie]

Please do Princess Diana

[@BillyBedlam85]

Part of the reason why wenamed our daughter Amelia, that and couldnt find a crappy Amelia throughout history

[@cassandraralph5906]

An amazing woman, it's a great pity that she and her possibly drunk navigator ended up disappearing over the Pacific Ocean, I have a lot of new theories as to why this happened. But they will take too long to explain. Even so we will probably never really know that happened! I learned a lot today! Thank you, Simon!

[@traeherren2269]

I'd love to see a video on Ric Flair

[@brandyball2299]

Left out that she was a founding member of the Ninety-Nines in 1929 and became the first president of the organization.

[@Itsfineweerallfine]

How about a biography of Nina Samone?

[@sonnythirteen]

Can you guys do Wendell Scott

[@philipwilkinson3088]

What about Amy Johnson

[@Glen.Danielsen]

Simon, perhaps a video on Brigham Young? Or Joseph Smith the Latter-day Saint prophet? Cheers to your great work!!

[@josephishkabibble5863]

Wow, my whole life I never knew there was a another person (Noonan) along with her!!!!!!

[@preknife]

Pls do Heinrich Himmler

[@preknife]

blackzed I posted it before he did it

[@Rodolphus1]

Amelia is my 6th cousin, 6x removed through the Otis family.

[@andiduke1]

Londonderry is in Northern Ireland....

[@David_Me825]

Please do a Bio of Abu Hajaar, the most awkward ISIS member. Legends says he is still rolling to this day..

[@dennistesolat5346]

Wonderful. The "I" in Spadina is pronounced "eye"

[@Fig_Bender]

Dennis Tesolat Simon often misprnounces, or even adds, syllables

[@fairplaylad420]

He makes a little mistake in this video. He says 'Londonderry' but I'm sure he meant 'Derry'.

[@brandonk8948]

Side trivia fact about Amelia's husband. I have been doing some extensive family research and recently discovered some fun facts about being related to Amelia Earhart through being a distant cousin to her husband, George P. Putnam. We share the same grandfather from Massachusetts, Lt. Nathaniel Putnam 1619-1700. The story about the family's connection to George gets even cooler. My 2nd great-grandfather, Robert William Sawyer was a lawyer who moved out west to avoid a scandal that had occurred with his marriage. He relocated in the small community at the time of Bend, Oregon. While there he would write anonymous news articles regarding local events and would humbly submit them beneath the editor's door of The Bulletin, a local newspaper owned by George P. Putnam. One day though he was caught and confronted by Putnam who was so impressed by these anonymous submissions that he offered my grandfather a job on his staff. He accepted and within a few years Putnam declared he wished to pull up stakes and move on. He offered the newspaper to my grandfather who continued running it for several years thereafter. It was exactly ten years later that George would go on to marry Amelia Earhart. Through my research I also discovered that unbeknown to both of these men was that they were both distant eighth generational cousins. Granted, I acknowledge I'm not in direct affiliation or heir of Earhart's legacy but it really cool discovering the family connections through backroom history and family geneologies.

[@bev0666]

We pronounce Spadina as in Spadina Military Hospital, as "Spad-eye-na" here in Toronto.

[@GaryNumanfan-uo3nz]

Bury Point?? It’s Burry Port.

[@Calum...]

It's Derry

[@Janinex98]

the thumbnail was broken for me

[@joshuaradick5679]

I went to college in her home town of Atchison, which really loves to cash in on her fame.

[@christineparis5607]

Joshua Radick Enthusiasm often translates into consumerism...

[@Fig_Bender]

I live in newfoundland, she departed on one of her major voyages from here and I've never heard anyone here ever mention anything about it

[@negativeindustrial]

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG Well, that and she only just departed from there. It’s not like she grew up there or anything. I’m sure she shopped at a department store too but I doubt you’ll find any plaques on the site of it.

[@negativeindustrial]

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG Sorry, didn’t mean to step on your tribal feelings of superiority. Canada is indeed a country of many redeeming qualities.

[@negativeindustrial]

Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne on IG It’s pretty clear what you’re saying, I just don’t care. You should be well used to that. I doubt anyone is much interested in your trite statements.

[@christobanistan8887]

WTF, he says something removed in the rebuild by Boeing would "almost certainly" be responsible for the later crash that killed Earhart and Noonan, then in now way references this at the end. So how can you make that assertion??

[@thekareemarafa]

reduced their ability to make radio contact? assuming they got lost.

[@Andrewflynn16]

As someone from Newfoundland I'm guna leave this Sounds like New-frown-land without the r

[@yomomma2586]

It seems her mother kept lifting her up and supporting her no matter what she chose. I mean damn she chose to do so much and she more or less found her soulmate too no less.

[@blueeyedscorpio7]

*She was pretty in her young days!*

[@siomhe8539]

THAT'S what you took away from this?

[@richardsanchez9190]

Just her young days.

[@ayy4262]

Siomhe yes