Amelia Earhart Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

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

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