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AMELIA

EARHART

AMERICA’S FIRST LADY ON AIR!!

A SYMOBOL OF COURAGE AND

PERSEVERENCE

A note by Amelia Earhart to her husband George Putnam…

Please know I am quite aware of the

hazards...I want to do it because I

want to do it. Women must try to do

things as men have tried. When they

fail their failure must be but a

challenge to others."

AMELIA EARHART AS A CHILD

Father: Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart

(March 28, 1867)

Mother: Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart (1869–

1962)

Earhart's childhood was very unconventional as

she and her sister were unlike other girls in the

neighborhood, they wore bloomers and got full

freedom to do whatever they wanted to with no

restrictions although their grandmother

disapproved with it.

ONE OF THE BEST WOMEN

PILOTS IN THE UNITED STATES

• In Autumn 1925, Amelia took a position at Denison

House in Boston as a "novice" social worker and was

later employed as a staff member. She joined the

Boston Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association,

and invested what little money she had in a company

that would build an airport and market Kinner airplanes

in Boston. During this time she took full advantage of

the circumstances to promote

• flying...especially for women. She regularly became the

subject of columns in newspapers. The Boston Globe

called her "one of the best women pilots in the United

States".

• On April 27, 1926 her life was to change forever...a phone

call from Captain H.H. Railey asked.."how would you like

to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?"

H.H. Railey had been asked by George Palmer Putnam, a

New York publisher, to find the woman to make a trans-

atlantic flight. No woman had so far flown across the

Atlantic. Railey, having been struck by Amelia's strong

resemblance to Charles Lindbergh, coined the name

"Lady Lindy".

A week later, Amelia met with George Putnam in New

York. George was said to have been so impressed by her

at the meeting that he decided Amelia should be the

woman to make the flight. Amelia accepted the offer

although she would only be a passenger on the flight.

The celerbrity

Since she had no experience of multi-engine or

instrument flying. Wilmer Stultz and Louis

Gordon would pilot the tri-motor Fokker named

the "Friendship" with Amelia having the official

title of "commander" of the flight.

On Sunday, June 3, 1928 after waiting several

days for the weather to clear, the Friendship left

for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bad weather conditions

again delayed the flight out of Halifax till June

18. Flying through dense fog for most of their

journey, they landed at Burry Port in South

Wales and not in Ireland as had been

planned...with little fuel remaining.

• Amelia continued to work for the airline and was

writing regular articles for Cosmopolitan and other

publications, with speaking engagements in many

cities across the country. In 1930 she broke several

women's speed records in her Lockheed Vega

aircraft. After turning down George's purposal of

marriage several time, they finally married on

February 7, 1931.

THE LAST FLIGHT

• 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. In 1932, exactly five years after Lindbergh's

flight, Earhart became the first woman to repeat the feat.

Her popularity grew even more. She was the undisputed

queen of the air! Still, she wanted to achieve more.

• She decided that her next trip would be to fly around the

world. In March 1937, she flew to Hawaii with fellow pilot

Paul Mantz to begin this flight. Earhart lost control of the

plane on takeoff, however, and the plane had to be sent

to the factory for repairs.

In June, she went to Miami to again begin a

flight around the world, this time with Fred

Noonan as her navigator. No one knows

why, but she left behind important

communication and navigation instruments.

Perhaps it was to make room for additional

fuel for the long flight. The pair made it to

New Guinea in 21 days, even though

Earhart was tired and ill. During the next leg

of the trip, they departed New Guinea for

Howland Island, a tiny island in the middle of

the Pacific Ocean. July 2, 1937, was the last

time Earhart and Noonan communicated

with a nearby Coast Guard ship. They were

never heard from again.

The U.S. Navy conducted a massive search

for Earhart and Noonan that continued for

more than two weeks. Unable to accept that

Earhart had simply disappeared and

perished, some of her admirers believed that

she was a spy or was captured by enemies of

the United States. The Navy submitted a

report following its search, which included

maps of search areas. Neither the plane nor

Earhart nor Noonan were ever found. No one

knows for sure what happened, but many

people believe they got lost and simply ran

out of fuel and died. Amelia Earhart was less

than a month away from her 40th birthday.

JUST AMELIA….