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“Ameila Earhart Embarking on Her Round-the-World Flight.”
Amelia Earhart’s airplane, the Flying Laboratory, shown over the Golden Gate Bridge after taking off from Oakland, California, at the start of her round-the-world flight.
Uncredited photographer (INS). 17 March, 1937. / src:

Amelia Earhart. The aviatrix vanished in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world along the Equator. When women fail, she said, ‘their failure must be but a challenge to others.’
Photograph courtesy Hulton-Deutsch Collection-Corbis / source: National Geographic ‘Failure Is an Option’