Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Atlantic Skies

Amelia Earhart is distinguished as the first female to fly unaccompanied across the Atlantic Ocean. In a small town in Kansas, Amelia Mary Earhart was born on the 24th of July 1897. A spirit of adventure seemed to linger in the Earhart children with their daily urge to explore. With the help of her father’s job, Earhart caught a glimpse of her first aircraft at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. As an inspiration, she kept a scrapbook of prosperous women in especially male-oriented fields, including film direction and production, law, advertising, management and mechanical engineering from newspapers and magazine clippings.. From homeschooling, to high school graduate and a college dropout, she also received training as a nurse's aide from

She departs from Newfoundland and lands in a pasture in Northern Ireland. This act earns her the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French government, and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Hoover, becoming the first woman to ever receive this prestigious award. The site of her landing in Ireland now has a small museum, the Amelia Earhart Centre. After becoming the first woman to fly from the North American continent and back, Amelia visits the White House. From this visit she develops a friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt . Amelia flies across North America for the second time, breaking her own record with a faster flight time. Earhart and Fred depart from Lae with the hopeful destination of Howland Island, a tiny island in the Pacific only 13,200 feet long and 2,650 feet wide. Since neither could not find the island, unfortunately, they lose radio contact with the Coast Guard, who can hear that they are lost but cannot return communication. They disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. President Roosevelt issues a massive search party for Amelia and Noonan, while George Putnam, Amelia’s husband in an arranged marriage, finances his own search until October 1937. Sadly, both of their efforts are unsuccessful. Amelia receives the Harmon Trophy for America's Outstanding Airwoman for the third year in a row but was declared legally dead in a court in Los Angeles on January