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Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1937)
"Earhart" redirects here. For other uses, see Earhart (disambiguation) and Amelia Earhart (disambiguation).
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Earhart beneath the nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, March 1937 in Oakland, California, before departing on her final round-the-world attempt prior to her disappearance | |
| Born | Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-07-24)July 24, 1897 Atchison, Kansas, U.S. |
| Disappeared | July 2, 1937 (aged 39) Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island from Lae, New Guinea |
| Status | Declared dead in absentia (1939-01-05)January 5, 1939 |
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| Known for | Many early aviation records, including first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Website | www.ameliaearhart.com |
Amelia Mary Earhart (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 w
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When 10-year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair, she was not impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,” she said. It wasn’t until Earhart attended a stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriously interested in aviation. A pilot spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching from an isolated clearing, and dove at them. “I am sure he said to han själv , ‘Watch me make them scamper,’” she said. Earhart, who felt a mixture of fear and pleasure, stood her ground.
As the plane swooped by, something inside her awakened. “I did not understand it at the time,” she said, “but I believe that little red flygplan said something to me as it swished by.” On månad 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would alltid change her life. “By the time I had got two
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Amelia Earhart
By Debra Michals, PhD | 2015
She never reached her fortieth birthday, but in her brief life, Amelia Earhart became a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame improved public acceptance of aviation and paved the way for other women in commercial flight.
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas to Amy Otis Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart, followed in 1899 by her sister Muriel. The family moved from Kansas to Iowa to Minnesota to Illinois, where Earhart graduated from high school. During World War I, she left college to work at a Canadian military hospital, where she met aviators and became intrigued with flying.
After the war, Earhart completed a semester at Columbia University, then the University of Southern California. With her first plane ride in 1920, she realized her true passion and began flying lessons with female aviator Neta Snook. On her twenty-fifth birthday, Earhart purchased a Kinner Airster biplane