Amelia Earhart
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Amelia wanted to learn how to fly after her first airplane ride in 1920 (Amelia Earhart). After Amelia graduated she volunteered as a nurse’s aide for the Red Cross (Amelia Earhart). She came to know many wounded pilots (Amelia Earhart). She developed a strong admiration for aviators, spending much of her free time watching the Royal Flying Corps practicing at the airfield nearby (Amelia Earhart). At a Long Beach air show in 1920, Amelia took her first plane with famed World War 1 pilot Frank Hawks and she was forever hooked (Amelia Earhart).2 Amelia's first flying instructor was Neta Shook (Amelia Earhart Learns to Fly). Amelia Earhart eventually gathered up enough money and purchased a second-hand Kinner Airster
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Her first big accomplishment after taking lessons with Neta Shook was on October 22, 1922 when Amelia broke the women's altitude record when she rose 14,000 feet (Achievements - The Official Licensing Website of Amelia Earhart). A year later In 1923, Earhart received her international pilot's license and she was only the 16th woman to do so. At the same time, she was becoming famous for her aviation achievements (Amelia Earhart Learns to Fly). In 1928, as a member of a three-person crew, she had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aircraft. Although her only function during the crossing was to keep the plane’s log, the event won her national fame (Achievements - The Official Licensing Website of Amelia Earhart), On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland, beginning the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic by a woman. Exactly five years prior to Amelia's flight Charles Lindbergh completed the very first solo flight across the Atlantic. So not only was it the first such trip by a woman, it was only the second successful solo Atlantic flight by a human (On This Day in 1932, Amelia Earhart Began Her Solo Atlantic
Lindbergh’s passion for mechanics didn’t come as a surprise to many. As a young boy, Charles seemed to be very interested in the family’s motorized vehicles, such as the Saxon Six automobile and Excelsior motorbike. But after starting college in the fall of 1920 as a mechanical engineer, his love for aviation started to bloom. Deciding that the field of aviation was more exciting, he dropped out within 2 years. He then decided to take lessons at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school and was up in the air for the first time on April 9, 1922 when he was in a two seat biplane as a passenger. But his solo flight would not be until May 1923 at the Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, an old flight training field where Lindbergh came to buy a World War I Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane. It only took half an hour to practice with another pilot at the field to decide that Lindbergh was ready to fly the plane himself. After a week of practicing, Lindbergh took off on his biplane on his first solo cross country flight and few weeks after that, achieving his first nighttime flight near Arkansas, both marking huge milestones for the young pilot.
Introduction Throughout the 1920s and 30s, although forming a thirteenth of all aviators, many women played a significant role in flying. (Corn, p 72) Amelia Earhart was one of these women. She was a pioneer in women’s aviation. In 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alongside pilot Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis E. "Slim" Gordon.
Amelia Earhart was the first female to be able to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1921, and earned her National Aeronautics Association License and set many records
Ella was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917. When alled “The First Lady of Song” by some fans. She was known for having beautiful tone, extended range, and great intonation, and famous for her improvisational scat singing. Ella sang during the her most famous song was “A-tiscket A-tasket”. Fitzgerald sang in the period of swing, ballads, and bebop; she made some great albums with other great jazz artists such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. She influenced countless American popular singers of the post-swing period and also international performers such as the singer Miriam Makeba. She didn’t really write any of her own songs. Instead she sang songs by other people in a new and great way. The main exception
Amelia Mary Earhart was the first of two children to be born to Amy Otis. Her Grandfather, Alfred Otis, was a high class citizen in Atchison, as well as a judge. Edwin, Amelia’s father, endured many failures which caused his blooming alcoholism to worsen, bringing his family into an unknown poverty. Making a tough decision Amy sent Amelia and her younger sister Muriel to their Grandparents to attend The College Preparatory in Atchison. In 1908, at the Iowa State Fair that Amelia’s father took her to, she caught a glimpse of her first plane. Upon Amelia’s first sight of the plane she had thought it was a “thing of rust wire and wood, not interesting at all.”
Amelia got a call and they had asked her if she wanted to be the first woman to fly around the equator and over the Pacific ocean. Amelia agreed to what they were asking her to do. Amelia started training, within months of training they were finally ready to fly across the Pacific ocean. Amelia flew across the ocean in 1928, she mysteriously went missing in a plane crash while she was flying over the ocean, they never knew what happened to her for sure but there are some conspiracy theories that she disappeared into the bermuda triangle or that she was taken by the japanese but we are still not clear on what happened to
Nancy Harkness Love was one of the most influential women in aviation history. Born in 1914, the Houghton, Michigan native was the daughter of Dr. Robert and Alice Harkness. She studied at Milton Academy and Vassar, and had had her pilot’s license since the age of sixteen, while in high school. When at Milton Academy, a school that was strict about driving policies but did not have any rules against flying, she flew through a boy’s school’s campus as a prank, and got into trouble for it. When she left college, she took jobs in Beechcraft and Waco selling aircrafts before working for Inter-City Air Lines, owned and run by a young Princeton and MIT alumnus named Robert Love, whom she later married.
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic ocean.
Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. While she was growing up, most girls her age would be taught household activities, such as cooking and sewing, but her family did not follow the normal standards. Her parents, Amy and Edwin Earhart, encouraged Amelia and her sister, Muriel, to go on adventures. Amy Earhart was the first women to climb Pikes Peak, in Colorado, and she taught her children that girls could do just as much as boys. Amelia and her family moved to Des Moines, Iowa for her dad’s job. He was starting to become a successful lawyer, but also starting having problems with alcohol, and by 1914 he lost his job. Because her family was moving around often, trying to find her dad a job, Amelia went to five different high schools before she graduated from Hype Park High School in Chicago. During a Christmas break during college, she visited her sister in school in Toronto, Canada. Amelia encountered men who had fought during World War I, and dropped out of school to work as a nurse in the hospital in Canada. As a nurse, she would hear stories of brave pilots, sparking her interest in airplanes.
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane in 1928. She was also the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone from Honolulu to California and from California to Mexico, nonstop. She was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897 and spent her childhood riding horses. The world she was born into had made up its mind about how men and women should act. That did not stop her though from challenging herself and taking risks. Her parents gave her plenty of encouragement to be who she wanted to be. Earhart did not always plan on being a pilot. She was on the path to becoming a doctor and was a pre-med student at Columbia University in New York. It was not until 1919 that she flew in a plane for the first time on a
She became very famous because during her time not many women had ever dared to do such thing. Many people started writing about her in the newspaper, about her great audacity, her courage and great achievements. As Susan Butler wrote in her book “The life of Amelia Earhart” which could not have given a better explanation for why Amelia was so recognized, she wrote, “She [Amelia Earhart] was a feminist that appealed to men as well as women because she used her promotion to promote not women’s causes but women’s self-esteem.” Amelia had really been noticed and that impacted her life greatly as she was able to share and promote her feelings, views, and ideas through the newspapers with some of the poems that she wrote. The poem Courage by Amelia Earhart published in the newspaper “Who is Amelia Earhart?” says, “How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare.” This shows Amelia Earhart’s strong thoughts and views as she believes we must dare to do something if we want to obtain it, not all things are obtained easily and we have to work hard. Not only was Amelia able to promote her thoughts and feelings but according to Susan Ware in her book Still
Amelia was 12 years when she saw her first airplane, and decided that she would learn to fly. Although very ambitious, she did not take her first flight until 1920, at the age of twenty-three. Amelia Earhart was so thrilled by her first airplane ride that she quickly sought out to learn to fly with the help of Neta Snook, one of the first women to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation. Already equipped...
Earhart had a life outside of flying airplanes and being a celebrity. She was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. Her childhood was spent in an upper-middle class household. Her family moved around often so she went to various schools showing potential for chemistry. In her childhood, Amelia grew her independent nature by exploring her neighborhood and catching rats with her sister. Much later in her life, George Putnam published Amelia’s autobiography, and he eventually became her husband in 1931. George actually asked her to marry a couple of time which she refused (“Amelia Earhart” Biography.com). Amelia was shaped by her childhood
After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in May of 1927, the idea of a woman performing the same task sprouted in the minds of many different people. On April, 1928 in a phone call from Captain Hilton H. Riley, Amelia was asked to fly across the Atlantic, she was thrilled by this and answered “yes”. Soon after the call she was chosen to be on a transatlantic flight, as a passenger. On June 17, 1928 Amelia set off to fly across the Atlantic, but not alone she flew with a pilot by the name of Louis E. Shultz, who did most of the flying, she hoped to one day to fly it alone. After “her flight” across the Atlantic she was welcomed back by a parade in her honor, and wet with president Calvin Coolidge in the Whitehouse. From the flight the press named her “Lady Lindy” from Charles Lindbergh's nickname “Lucky Lindy”. When more technology came out, on such things as navigation Earhart decided to stick with her gut. On the 5th anniversary Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic, Amelia announced that she would conduct a solo flight herself, making her the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Earhart took off on the date of May 20, 1932 but on July 2, 1937 Amelia and her navigator, Frank Noonan disappeared, many people believe that she lost fuel around Howland Island and quickly sunk, but no one is actually sure what happened to Amelia
There she tested many aircraft thus learning how to fly and became part of a traveling aircraft engineer assessment team. The position was to travel to evaluate aircraft for the Army to purchase.(Namowitz, 2016) Through this, she claimed her title as the first female aviation engineer in the “Air Technical Service Command’s Engineering Division at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. She flew more than 6,000 hours as pilot in fighter, attack, bomber, cargo and training aircraft. She qualified as a B-29 Flight Engineer and was an engineering analyst in test aircraft for flight and maintenance requirements.”