Amelia Earhart

Born
July 24, 1897-July 2, 1937
(Age 39 )

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• Earhart was 12 years old before she ever saw an airplane. Amelia Earhart was so thrilled by her first airplane ride that she quickly began to take flying lessons.

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• Amelia has her first flying lesson with pilot Neta Snook. Six months later so was able to purchase her first airplane, a yellow Kinner Airster biplane she names the Canary .
• She didn't take her first flight until 1920

Amelia was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. distinguished flying cross for the record.

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• After flying across the Atlantic as a passenger in 1928, Amelia Earhart's next goal was to achieve a transatlantic crossing alone.
• In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Five years after Lindbergh's flight, Earhart became the first woman to repeat the feat.
• Her popularity grew even more.

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• During an attempt to make a circumnavigation flight of the globe in 1937. Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland island.

WORK CITED PAGE

• Biography.com
• NyTimes.com
• History.com
• Wikipedia