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Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This is newsreel footage from the late 1920s and early 1930s shows barnstormers performing aerial stunts, as well as footage of Amelia Earhart and a newsreel camera aircraft. Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During
