Partly cloudy, with a good chance of mystery.

Maybe it's just the old-fashioned photography, but to modern eyes, the two most famous aviators in the world could almost have been siblings.  And the similarities go beyond the physical:  On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh touched down in Paris to complete the world's first transatlantic flight; five years later to the day, Amelia Earhart became the first pilot to replicate the achievement.

Earhart vanished into thin air;
Lindbergh lived a secret double life
in plain sight.

Five years after that, Earhart disappeared, famously, over the Pacific.  Lindbergh lived on for nearly a half century, living very publicly--sometimes publicly and tragically as in the kidnapping of his infant son, and sometimes publicly and controversially in his involvement in the isolationist "America First" movement and his anti-Semitic comments.  Yet despite all the media attention--and a long marriage to the enthusiastic memoirist,  Anne Morrow Lindbergh--it wasn't until decades after his death that it was discovered that "Lucky Lindy" maintained not one, not two, but three secret families in Europe that included seven children in addition to the six children he and Morrow had.  Very friendly skies.

There's a new push on the locate the remains of  Earhart's wreckage http://tinyurl.com/cdybtc8 which may or may not come to anything, but the likelihood of understanding the private mystery of the very public Lindbergh seems small.  A German biographer attempts to here http://www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php?recordID=236  and here's a link to a New York Times article about Reeve Lindbergh, the youngest American child, published when she was promoting her own third memoir in 2008 in which she discusses meeting all those other siblings. http://tinyurl.com/7tow5to