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When Amelia Earhart was born and information about her before she started flying
Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897, she worked as a nurse before learning how to fly and buying her own airplane. -
Setting the women's altitude record
Amelia Earhart set the women's altitude record in 1922. After flying the Airster in 14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the air. -
Amelia Earhart flying across the Atlantic ocean
Amelia Earhart became the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean in 1932. She left Canada on a red Lockheed Vega 5B and the next day she landed in Northern Ireland. Shortly after Amelia Earhart returned to the Untied States congress awarded her for “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight.” -
Flying from Hawaii
Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly a solo flight from Hawaii to The United States in the mainland in 1935. -
The Beginning of Amelia Earhart's flight around the world
Amelia Earhart began her flight around the world in California on June first 1937. This flight was her second attempt to become the first ever pilot to fly around the globe. On her flight she was accompanied by a flight navigator named Fred Noonan. The airplane that she was flying at the time was a twin-engine Lockheed 10E Electra. -
During the flight for going around the world
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan flew to Lae, New Guinea, on June the 29th. When they arrived at Lae they had already flown 22,000 miles and they only have 7,000 miles to go before reaching Oakland and achieving their goal. -
What happened to Amelia Earhart?
Shortly after Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan left Lea they were heading to Howland Island which was their next refuel stop on July 2nd. They lost radio contact with the U.S. coast Guard cutter Itasca which at the time he was on the Howland island. President Franklin D. Roosevelt then authorized a huge search for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. But after two weeks of searching for the two and not finding them they where declared lost at sea on July 19th 1937, Amelia Earhart was 40 years old.
