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Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer.On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
Amelia Earhart (1897–1937), first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic [26] Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983), reporter and pilot; Lotfia Elnadi (1907–2002), the first African woman, first Arab woman, and first Egyptian woman to earn her pilot’s license in 1933. Ruth Elder (1902–1977), pilot and actress known as the "Miss America of ...
Wilmer Lower Stultz (April 11, 1900 – July 1, 1929) was an aviator who made the first non-stop flight between New York City and Havana, Cuba. He flew Amelia Earhart when she became the first woman to make a trans-Atlantic flight. He died in a crash in 1929.
On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart set out to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger four years prior.
Amelia Earhart took to the skies in 1921, but did you know she saw her first plane at 10 years old when she lived in Des Moines? Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897 to her parents, Amy ...
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world. [2] She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the Spirit of Columbus and nicknamed "Charlie."
Amelia Earhart set flying records, wrote books, advocated for women's rights and, at the height of her fame, was a Boilermaker — she served as a career counselor and lecturer at Purdue University.
More at Newsreel footage of Amelia Earhart's flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California on January 11, 1935 in her Lockheed. On May 20-21, 1932, Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic. Three years later she became the first person, man or woman, to fly from Hawaii to the continental USA.