What were Amelia's goals and what did this flight mean to Purdue?

For Purdue, it was a means to advance the technology to better understand the problem set with long distance flying, but also capture the imagination of future aviators and people to join the aerospace industry to push the industry along.

So I'll focus first on the education mission of Purdue.

and then we can get in the technology side.

And the education mission, if you go back in time, it was before a lot of universities allowed women to even enter into STEM education.

And Purdue was very ahead of its time in this space and understood, again, part of that land grant mission was to allow all people to have an opportunity to advance their skill sets to make an impact on humankind.

But with Amelia, she was passionate to encourage and inspire young women that they too could have careers in the STEM field.

So fast forward to today, how does PRF support aviation and how is the work being done by PRF furthering aeronautical research overall?