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Amelia Earhart's Achievements

By sarcah27

  • Broke women's altitude record- 14,000 feet

  • First woman to fly across the Atlantic

    few months after the flight, she published "20 hours 40 minutes"

  • 3rd in First Women's Air Derby/ Powder Puff Derby

  • Sets women's speed record for 100 kilometers

  • Set speed record for 181.18 mph over 3k course

  • Set women's autogrip altitude record- 18, 415 feet

  • Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress

  • First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

  • Awarded National Geographic Society's gold medal

  • First woman to fly coast to coast solo

  • Set women's nonstop transcontinental speed record

  • Broke her previous transcontintal speed record

  • First to fly the 2,408 mile distance across Pacific solo

  • First to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City

  • First to fly from Mexico City to Newark solo

  • Began her "flight around the world"

  • First person to fly from the Red Sea to India