Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A series of errors turned Amelia Earhart’s greatest flight into one of history’s greatest mysteries. Try brilliant.org/Newsthink and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.
I highly recommend Susan Butler’s incredible book East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart https://a.co/d/9ApVp23
Chapters:
0:00 Tomboy beginnings
1:02 A War That Changed Everything
1:36 First Urge to Fly
2:53 Inspired by Charles Lindbergh
3:50 First Atlantic Crossing (1928)
4:46 Becoming a Celebrity
5:40 Marriage to George Putnam
6:22 Proving Herself as a Pilot
7:26 The Solo Atlantic Flight (1932)
8:49 Breaking More Records
9:36 The Dream Machine: Lockheed Electra
10:48 Around the World Attempt (1937)
12:58 The Second Last Leg
13:24 Search, Disappearance, and Legacy
14:18 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant
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Special thanks to the following for permission to utilize footage:
1932 flight footage courtesy of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Autogyro footage courtesy of the University of South Carolina
Bendix radio direction finder courtesy of Oldtymeantiques on eBay: ebay.us/m/C8F8sP
Earhart’s childhood home in Atchison, Kansas: Ammodramus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A series of errors turned Amelia Earhart’s greatest flight into one of history’s greatest mysteries. Try brilliant.org/Newsthink and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.
I highly recommend Susan Butler’s incredible book East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart https://a.co/d/9ApVp23
Chapters:
0:00 Tomboy beginnings
1:02 A War That Changed Everything
1:36 First Urge to Fly
2:53 Inspired by Charles Lindbergh
3:50 First Atlantic Crossing (1928)
4:46 Becoming a Celebrity
5:40 Marriage to George Putnam
6:22 Proving Herself as a Pilot
7:26 The Solo Atlantic Flight (1932)
8:49 Breaking More Records
9:36 The Dream Machine: Lockheed Electra
10:48 Around the World Attempt (1937)
12:58 The Second Last Leg
13:24 Search, Disappearance, and Legacy
14:18 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant
Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom
https://x.com/cindypom
Grab your Newsthink merch here: newsthink.creator-spring.com
Support Cindy on Patreon! patreon.com/Newsthink
Special thanks to the following for permission to utilize footage:
1932 flight footage courtesy of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Autogyro footage courtesy of the University of South Carolina
Bendix radio direction finder courtesy of Oldtymeantiques on eBay: ebay.us/m/C8F8sP
Earhart’s childhood home in Atchison, Kansas: Ammodramus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
