When Amelia Earhart and the 'Queen of Diamonds' Raced to Become the First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic

Shoshi Parks History Correspondent In the year after Charles Lindbergh completed the world’s first solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in May 1927, more than 50 aviators attempted similarly precedent-breaking crossings. Each vied for a first of their own—the first to fly east to west against the wind; the first to fly from London, Ontario, to London, England; the first to fly from Philadelphia to…