EVE’s Amelia Earhart balloon makes the news in Kansas

There was a terrific write-up about EVE in the Topeka Capital-Journal last weekend. Most of the article is about our Amelia Earhart statue project, but the reporter also devoted some space to our balloons:
The Kansas statue is the second Earhart-related project for EVE. The organization has launched a line of giant parade balloons featuring [...]

Earhart Flies High Again

On October 2, in a constant downpour of rain, EVE’s Amelia Earhart balloon had its first test flight in the Circle City Parade in Indianapolis, Indiana. The rain might have decreased the size of the crowd but not their enthusiasm. The parade was televised locally so most likely tens of thousands of people got [...]

Amelia Earhart balloon is set to fly!

Major announcement today! Quoting our press release:
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Amelia Earhart Will Make History Again
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27 — There are giant parade balloons of Olive Oyl and Miss Piggy, but until now, no one has ever produced a balloon of an actual historic woman.
All that will change on October 2, when a forty-five [...]

Amelia Earhart Will Make History Again

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27 — There are giant parade balloons of Olive Oyl and Miss Piggy, but until now, no one has ever produced a balloon of an actual historic woman.
All that will change on October 2, when a forty-five foot helium balloon of Amelia Earhart in her red Lockheed Vega will [...]

Coverage on EVE and the Amelia Earhart statue

Here’s a quick round-up of the news pieces we’ve tracked since our press release announcing the commission for the new Amelia Earhart statue:

Amelia Earhart flies into Statuary Hall
Washington Post
Earhart lands in U.S. Capitol
Kansas City Star
Earhart may finally land in US Capitol
The Wichita Eagle
Earhart statue bound for U.S. Capitol
St. Joseph News-Press
Newsflash: Amelia Earhart’s Legacy Will be [...]

It’s official: Amelia Earhart will be the tenth woman in Statuary Hall

And EVE has been entrusted with the responsibility for making it happen.
I promised a couple of months ago that we had two very big announcements brewing, both of them related to Amelia Earhart. The first was the parade balloon, which is on schedule for a debut this fall.
The second announcement is this: [...]

Ta-da! Official artist sketch of the Amelia Earhart balloon!

Here it is, the artist’s rendering of the new Amelia Earhart balloon:

Bear in mind this thing will be humongous—with a 40-foot wingspan, it will be the same size as the real airplane!
The art has been through several iterations and tweaked in response to feedback from EVE’s 99 Club, and now it’s ready to [...]

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We are HUGELY grateful to all the 99 Club members who have helped us raise the funds for the Amelia Earhart balloon. We would be absolutely nowhere without your wonderful generosity. Thanks to you, we have made the down payment on the balloon, hired the artist, ordered and paid for the parade banner, [...]

Google Doodles and invisible women

Earlier this month I came across Shelby Knox’s post on how Google Doodles (you know what those are, right?) manage to almost entirely ignore women. I thought at the time, “oh wow, we have got to pull this together with our EVE stuff.”
And now we have. Or rather, Shelby [...]

Balloon Fever

Last Friday I asked you to push us over the halfway point with our balloon fund in time for us to place the order—and you did it!
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I never thought much about giant [...]

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