Peyton Mathis posing with medals goggles photo portrait of plane.jpg Peyton Mathis displays the medals and other items commemorating the military career of his uncle, Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., a ...

The goggles were estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $40,000. Wardell said goggles Earhart wore during her flight across the Atlantic Ocean went for more than $140,000 two years ago.

Mary Ellis, a “pioneering aviator” who was one of the last surviving female World War II pilots, has died at the age of 101.