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Amelia Earhart
1897 -1939
Amelia Earhart, who is she? Well she is one of the most famous women pilots that ever had soared the skies. Amelia Mary Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas to parents Samuel Edwin Stanton Earhart and Amelia Amy Otis Earhart; they also had another daughter. Most people knew Amelia as being something as a tomboy, since most of her antics where considered boyish. Her childhood, as she said ended with the auctioning of her home with all its contents.
Throughout her troubled childhood though, she had continued to aspire to future careers! One of the things she had kept was newspaper clippings about successful women in jobs manly men would do. Which included things such as film direction and production, law, advertising, management and mechanical engineering When she began junior college at Ogontz School in Rydal, Pennsylvania, she had not complete her what she had wanted. Soon afterwards, Amelia had caught a sickness called Spanish flu, which later contributed to problems with flying and activities in later life.
Amelia started to think about flying right after she wet to a flying show, she said this about what she thought; "I did not understand it at the time," she said, "but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by." By 15 May 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
Career and Succession
Amelia’s career began to spark! The Boston Globe was calling her; “One of he best female pilots ever.” She was a brilliant aviator, intelligent and competent pilot. She flew a series of flights and broke many a record: here were some of her famous flights.
o 1928 transatlantic flight – She along with her team flew across the Atlantic Ocean. She started from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m on 17 June 1928, landing at Burry Port (near Llanelli), Wales, United Kingdom. Her time was exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes.
o 1932 transatlantic solo flight – In this flight, Amelia had done this with out the help of her crew, this flight made her the first women to cross the Atlantic by herself. She started at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland after 14 hours, 56 minutes during which strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems took effect. She landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.
o 1935 flight – This flight made Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California on 11 January.
o 1937 world flight – The flight she never returned from, this flight is the flight that makes us all keep guessing.
Whatever happened to Amelia after the World flight? So many rumors have speculated to answer what happened to her and her partner Fred Noonan. Though, whatever the case Amelia Earhart will be an inspiration to all dreamers who want to take their wings to the sky.
 The Vicious Pink Beast · Mon Mar 17, 2008 @ 10:49am · 0 Comments |
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