July 2

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart[i] and her navigator, Fred Noonan, while attempting to make the first equatorial circumnavigation of the earth, disappeared on the 2nd in 1937 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. To this day, their disappearance remains a mystery. One aeronautical mystery that also remains unsolved is the answer to the question: ‘Why did Larry Walters do this?’ On the 2nd in 1982, he tied 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and then used this improvised aircraft to rise to an altitude of 16,000 feet. The FAA immediately took an interest in Larry.

[i] Earhart was also the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone and the first woman to fly coat-to-coast across the United States alone