June 18, 1928: Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic On June 18, 1944, the monoplane Friendship landed in a small port nearly 200 miles from its destination. It was carrying Amelia Earhart, the first woman ever to cross the Atlantic by air.
June 20, 2013 - Everett Herald
Sankar Chatterjee in MSNBC It is intriguing to contemplate that perhaps avian flight, like aircraft evolution, went through a biplane stage before the monoplane was introduced,said Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University. "It seems likely that Microraptor...