Amelia earhart early life
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Amelia Earhart
Her Final Flight
Earhart decided to make a world flight and she planned a route as close to the equator as possible, which meant flying several long overwater legs to islands in the Pacific Ocean.
On March 20, , Earhart crashed on takeoff at Luke Field, Honolulu, Hawaii, ending her westbound world flight that had begun at Oakland, California. The Electra was returned to Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, California, for extensive repairs.
On June 1, , Earhart began an eastbound round-the-world flight from Oakland, via Miami, Florida, in the Electra with Fred Noonan as her navigator. They reached Lae, New Guinea on June 29, having flown 35, kilometers (22, miles) with 11, kilometers (7, miles) more to go to Oakland. They then departed Lae on July 2 for the 4,kilometer (2,mile) flight to their next refueling stop, Howland Island, a three-kilometer (two-mile) long and less-than-a-mile wide dot in the Pacific Ocean.
Unfortunately, due to various circumstances, Ear
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Amelia Earhart
By Debra Michals, PhD |
She never reached her fortieth birthday, but in her brief life, Amelia Earhart became a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame improved public acceptance of aviation and paved the way for other women in commercial flight.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, in Atchison, Kansas to Amy Otis Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart, followed in by her sister Muriel. The family moved from Kansas to Iowa to Minnesota to Illinois, where Earhart graduated from high school. During World War I, she left college to work at a Canadian military hospital, where she met aviators and became intrigued with flying.
After the war, Earhart completed a semester at Columbia University, then the University of Southern California. With her first plane ride in , she realized her true passion and began flying lessons with female aviator Neta Snook. On her twenty-fifth birthday, Earhart purchased a Kinner Airster biplane. She flew it, in
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Biography
When year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair, she was not impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,” she dismissively said. It wasn’t until she attended a stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriously interested in aviation. A pilot spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching from an isolated clearing, and dove at them. “I am sure he said to han själv , ‘Watch me make them scamper,&#;” she exclaimed. Earhart, who felt a mixture of fear and pleasure, stood her ground. As the plane swooped bygd, something inre her awakened. “I did not understand it at the time,” she admitted, “but inom believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by.” On December 28, , pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change her life. “By the time inom had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.”
Although Earhart’s convictions were strong, chal