AMELIA EARHART

YOUNG AMELIA

• She was born at her grandmother's house in Atchison Kansas on July 24 1897.
• She was brave and adventurous but her love of flying came later in life.
• Amelia's family split up. She moved to Chicago with her mom and sister Muriel.

COLLEGE YEARS

• Amelia was 19 when she went to Ogontz school in Pennsylvania.
• Everyone admired Amelia. She was shy but charming, a good athlete and practical.
• She was elected vice president of her sophomore class.
• Amelia wrote the class motto "Honor is the foundation of courage".
• Amelia went to Toronto Canada during Christmas holiday in 1917, to visit her sister.

MORE COLLEGE YEARS

• Amelia wanted to help soldiers that were injured during World War I.
• She did not go back to Ogontz school she trained to be a nurses aide.
• Amelia came back to the United States after world war one. She enrolled into Columbia University.
• Amelia wanted a career, she did not want to get married to give up work to stay home.
• Amelia quit school again,went to Los Angeles to live with her parents who got back together again.

FOUND HER LOVE

• Amiela was dating Sam Chapman. She said no to marriage, because she wanted a career.
• Christmas Day 1920, she was 23 years old. Her life changed. She went to an air show in Long Beach California.
• There was no airport or runways back then, they used empty fields. She took her first plane ride at Rogers field.
• She loved it, She later said "As soon as we left the ground, I knew I, myself had to fly".
• Amelia took lessons from a woman named Neta Snook, they cost one dollar a minute which was a lot in 1921.

HER PLANE

• Amelia passed her test. She was a pilot.
• Amelia bought a plane. She painted it yellow and called it Canary.
• She flew in air shows and learn how to do tricks.
• She wanted to set records. She flew up to 14,000 feet and set her record.
• She couldn't support herself by flying. She sold the Canary and went back to Columbia University.

CHARLES LINDBERGH

• Charles Lindbergh was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic ocean alone.
• Amelia was asked to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. George Putnam was going to oversee it.
• They left Canada on June 16. The Friendship landed in Burry Port, South Wales, 20 hours and 40 minutes later.
• On June 18, 1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, as a passenger.
• People thought Charles and Amelia looked alike, and that's how she got her nickname Lady Lindy.

WORLD FAMOUS FEMALE PILOT

• George Putnam became her manager.
• Amelia bought a secondhand Lockheed Vega it was built for speed and distance.
• Amelia enter the Woman's Air Derby. People made fun and called it the "Powder Puff Derby".
• Only 11 out of 19 pilots finish the race with one pilot dying. Amelia came in third.
• Amelia became the first president of the Ninety Niners. It helped each other get jobs and record records.

MORE RECORDS

• Amelia married George Putnam her manager, because he wouldn't expect her to stay home and quit her career.
• Amelia was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. It was done on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight.
• Amelia became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California. People said she took too many risk.
• Amelia once said "you can do anything you want to do"

AMELIA'S LAST FLIGHT

• Amelia wanted to fly around the world, it would be 29,000 miles.
• May 21, 1937 she started in the Electra, the whole world was watching.
• Amelia and Fred Noonan could not find Howland Island to refuel.
• The last thing she said over the radio was "we are running north and south".
• She was a pioneer for woman, who was never found or heard from again.