Amelia+Earhart

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Who is Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a solo return transcontinental flight. She was born on July 24,1897 in Atchison.Kansas.Her flying career began in Los Angeles in 1921,at the age of 24.She took flying lessons from Neta Snook and she bought her first airplane,which was called a a Kinner Airstar. In 1924, she sold her airplane and moves back East due to family problems,where took an employment as a social worker. Four years later, she returned and bought an Avro Avian airplane and she became the first woman to make a solo flight. From then on, she continued to break her own speed and distance records, in competitive events and personal stunts that were promoted by her husband, George Palmer Putman

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928 and the first person to have flown both oceans. //** "As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" **// she stated. Later in 1935, Amelia began to formulate plans for an around-the-world flight. The Lockheed Electra was chosen as the plane for the flight. The flight would be two major firsts, she would be the first woman, and she would travel the longest possible distance. As Amelia was taking off from Luke Field, near Pearl Harbor she over compensated for a dropped right wing and the plane swung to the left out of control. The undercarriage collapsed and the aircraft slide along the runway on its belly. There was no fire, but damage was done to the plane. When the plane was shipped back to California for repairs, Amelia continues to make plans for another "around the world" flight.

//** "I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance "stunt" flying." **// she stated.

On June 27, before Amelia and Noonan were able to leave Bandoeng for Port Darwin, Australia. At Darwin the direction finder was repaired, and the parachutes were packed and shipped home...they would be of no value over the Pacific.

On July 19,1937 researchers stopped searching for Amelia Earhart. They believed the Electra ran out of fuel and Amelia and Noonan ditched to the sea. The unresolved circumstances of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, along with her fame, attracted a great body of other claims relating to her last flight, all of which have been generally dismissed for lack of verifiable evidence. Several unsupported theories have become well known in popular culture.

=**__TIMELINE OF HER ACHIEVEMENTS__**= __October 22, 1922__ - Set women's altitude record of 14,000 feet

__June 17-18, 1928__ - First woman to fly across the Atlantic; 20hrs 40min.

__August 1929__ - Placed third in the First Women's Air Derby, (aka the Powder Puff Derby); upgraded from her Avian to a Lockheed Vega

__Fall 1929__- Elected as an official for National Aeronautic Association and encouraged the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) to establish separate world altitude, speed and endurance records for women

__June 25, 1930__ - Set women's speed record for 100 kilometers with no load, and with a load of 500 kilograms

__July 5, 1930__ - Set speed record for of 181.18mph over a 3K course

__April 8, 1931__ - Set woman's autogiro altitude record with 18,415 feet

__May 20-21, 1932__ - First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; 14 hrs 56 min (it was also the 5th anniversary of Lindberg's Atlantic flight).

__August 24-25, 1932__ - First woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast; set women's nonstop transcontinental speed record, flying 2,447.8 miles﻿ in 19hrs 5min.

__Fall 1932__ - Elected president of the Ninety Nines, a new women's aviation club which she helped to form.

__July 7-8, 1933__ - Broke her transcontinental speed record by making the same flight in 17hrs 7min.

__January 11, 1935__ - First person to solo the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Hawaii and Oakland, California; also first flight where a civilian aircraft carried a two-way radio.

__May 8, 1935__ - First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark; 14hrs 19min. In 1935, she dedicated the new Administration Building at Newark Airport.