Amelia Earhart’s Flight around the World
“Seven hundred and something to go... That’s about the mileage between Burbank and Albuquerque, seems long way off… Long way too from radio beams and lighted airways… Our flyers at home don’t know how pampered they are…”-Amelia Earhart”(Burke). Amelia Earhart wanted to promote the advancement of women and prove to the world that she and other women could do anything a man could do. Amelia knew she could not be the first person to circumnavigate the earth, but she planned on being the first person but also first women to fly around the equator. Flying around the world in just a few months seemed impossible for a female in the 1930s, but Amelia Earhart decided that nothing would stop her from achieving this goal for herself and for others.
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Her navigators were Fred Noonan and Captain Harry Manning and her technical assistant was navigator Paul Mantz as they took off for their first attempt to fly around the equator. “Amelia was appointed a consult in careers at Purdue University, and the school bought a modern Lockheed Electra aircraft.” (http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280#realated-wideo-gallery). Earhart accepted the Lockhead, or plane, for their flight and named it “Electra”. Amelia and her crew set off to fly to Hawaii from California on March 17, 1937. “The trip to Hawaii went well but as they were leaving the runway from Hawaii, Earhart lopped the plane and crashed.” (http://www.nndb.com/people/943/000026865). Most eye witnesses that were present claim that they saw a tire blow out as she took off. The plane was damaged and sent back to California, but no one was hurt during the first attempt. Fred Noonan was the only one from the original crew to assist Amelia Earhart on her second attempt to fly around the world in their new plane that they named “Flying Laboratory”. They set flight on June 1, 1937 from Miami, Florida in route to