Aviation History

By Regan Tunstall On April 8th, 1931, Amelia Earhart broke a record altitude by climbing to 18,415 feet in a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro. No one had been able to get that high in an autogiro up to even 18,000 feet, but that day Earhart did it twice. She was flying over Warrington, Pennsylvania ending with…