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Amelia Earhart is born - Atchison Kansas
On July 24th 1897, on a Saturday Amelia Earhart was born in her grandmother's house in Atchison Kansas . She was born into a family with quite a lot of money, her parents were also quite wealthy. -
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Amelia Earhart - Atchison Kansas
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24th 1897, on a Saturday. On July 2nd, 1937 on a Tuesday Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world.
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First Plane Ride - Rogers Field (ME)
On December 25th, 1920 Earhart was at Long Beach, California with her father. At that moment an air show was taking place, she was fascinated by the tricks that were being done. Just three days after the air show, she and her father went to Rogers Field where Amelia went on her first plane ride. From then on she had a goal to become a pilot. -
Pilot License - Kinner Airfield (ME+CE)
A year later on December 15th, 1921 Earhart took her test and passed. From then and there on she now was a pilot. She joined some airshows to earn money, this also helped Earhart gain attention since most of the pilots were young men. -
First Woman to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean - Atlantic Ocean (ME+CE)
On June 18, 1928 Amelia became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. After she took this trip with Wilmer Stultz she suddenly became a hero because they thought that she was really brave. After this she became well known and even gave speeches, designed clothes, and was an editor for the Cosmopolitan magazine. -
Departing on the trip around the world - Honolulu (ME)
On March 17, 1937 Amelia with her two navigators left Oakland, California and arrived in Honolulu around 16 hours later. The first part of the trip was great but when they were leaving there was an accident. Since there was a delay to fix the plane one navigator couldn't go, Fred Norman then had to go. And because of weather patterns their flight course had to change to West to East. -
Amelia's Disappearance - Pacific Ocean (ME)
On July 2, 1937 Earhart and Noonanhad to land on a small Island named Howland that was hard to spot, to help them a coast guard ship was sent there to send a signal. At around 7:42 am the radio men got a message from Earhart, "We must be on you but cannot see you and gas is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio." And at 8:45 am another message , "We are running North and South." She was searching for the Island but could not find it, this was the last we heard from her. -
Instruments - Pacific Ocean (I)
Maybe Amelia's instruments weren't working since she was looking from North to South and couldn't find Howland Island. It is also possible her instruments weren't working since she was low on gas. -
Earhart Goes Missing - Pacific Ocean (MD)
Because Amelia Earhart has been lost we are still trying to find her. Some people think she may have landed on an Island and lived with the natives there for quite some time. -
Specialised Vocabulary
Cockpit ~ A place for the pilot or sometimes even crew on an aircraft
Taxied ~ When a plane has gone from one place in an airport to another on the ground
Instruments ~ They are in the cockpit, they tell the pilot about the flight situation of he aircraft
Cross-Country ~ A flight when a pilot lands somewhere else other then where they departed using instruments and more
Hangar ~ A large space mainly for the use of keeping planes -
Women Fly - World (WE)
Because of Amelia Earhart more women started flying, for example she helped set up a group called the ninty nines. This group helped women get more jobs, not only did she help set it up but she was also elected as the first president of that group.
