amelia earhart

     

Amelia Mary Earhart (pronounce /ˈɛərhɑrt/ "AIR-hart"; 24 July 1897 – missing 2 July 1937, declared dead 5 January 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer, author and women's rights advocate. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, which she was awarded as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

Trivia about amelia earhart

  • On a Feb. 1995 shuttle mission, pilot Eileen Collins took along a scarf that had belonged to this woman
  • Travelling 171 MPH in a Lockheed Vega, she set a record for women January 15, 1930
  • The first American woman to make a transatlantic flight; surprisingly, she was only a passenger
  • During 1928 both the Graf Zeppelin & this woman made their first flights across the Atlantic
  • In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland
  • In a 1996 novel Jane Mendelsohn adopts the voice of this female aviator, lost on a desert island
  • As a child, this future pilot built a roller coaster made of wood & roller skates in her yard
  • This Kansan made her last known take-off from New Guinea; if you find out where she is, let us know
  • She was called "Lady Lindy" & her last plane was a twin engine Lockheed Electra
  • 1997 marks the 60th anniversary of her disappearance over the Pacific
  • This aviator liked to be called A.E.
  • Her first attempt to fly around the world ended in March 1937 when her plane crashed in Hawaii
  • In May 1932 she made a little flight from Newfoundland across the north Atlantic
  • She was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
  • In 1932 she became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
  • The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman
  • In 1997 pilot Linda Finch recreated & finished the round-the-world flight begun by this woman
  • A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet..."
  • Fred Noonan was navigator on the 1937 around-the-world flight on which she disappeared
  • In 1929 she placed third in the first Powder Puff Derby, a cross-country air race for women
  • Presumably she was lost at sea after vanishing in the central Pacific in July 1937
  • In 1932 she crossed the Atlantic alone in 13 hours, 30 minutes
  • After a $10 airplane ride, she hired Neta Snook to teach her to fly
  • At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam
  • The last message from her in 1937 pertained to her location & an alternate radio frequency for communication
  • When Howard Hughes set an air speed record August 13, 1935, she was flying by to help confirm it
  • Some thought she was on a spy mission when her plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937
  • In 1937 a lighthouse was built on Howland Island to honor this aviatrix
  • "The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune", said this aviator in 1928
  • In 1928 she wrote "20 Hrs. 40 Min.", an account of her recent flight from Newfoundland to Wales
  • From 1935 to 1937 she worked at Purdue University as a career counselor & as an advisor in aeronautics
  • "Lady Lindy" or "America's Premier Air Woman"
  • In 1934 Stanley Switlik & George Putnam made the 1st jump tower; the 1st public demo was by this woman, Putnam's wife
  • "Last Flight", published by her husband George Putnam in 1937, was composed mainly of her diary entries
  • Shortly after her disappearance, her publisher husband George Putnam released "Last Flight", containing her diaries
  • In the 1920s she wrote, "In soloing....it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it"
  • In 1931 publisher George Palmer Putnam kept this aviatrix on the ground long enough to marry her
  • July 1, 1937: Fred & I are leaving New Guinea for Howland Island. 2,600 miles... wish us luck!
  • In 1935 she piloted a plane across the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to the American mainland
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall.)I'm at the National Geographic Society's Explorer's Hall in the cockpit of a Lockheed Electra, like the one that vanished with this woman who was trying to fly around the world in 1937
  • 1963:A pilot
  • In 1932 she took off in a plane from Newfoundland, Canada & landed about 15 hours later in Ireland
  • In 1937 Fred Noonan disappeared along with this person