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Flowery Branch woman casts her dragnet into Amelia Earhart's mystery
Dr. Lauren Palmer to join future expedition to find aviator's remains and plane
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Amelia Earhart studies maps and charts January 1935 at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Before she became America’s aviator, Amelia Mary Earhart was just a Midwestern tomboy who thought of planes as nothing more than jumbles of “rusty wire and wood.” Then, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and instantly became a household name. Although the first lady of flight’s fame still soars as high as ever, her legacy lacks a final chapter.