Introduction Who exactly is Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart is a famous female pilot who impacted many people; she is a symbol of women's rights and she showed that women can fly and do things just as well as men. Amelia was fearless and brave and liked to explore and discover. Amelia loved to break new records, and she loved to fly. Amelia Earhart inspired many human beings to be supreme; by being the best female pilot ever, she proved that women pilots are just as capable as men pilots.
Childhood. Amelia had a pretty normal childhood and grew up with an adventurous family. There were adventurous genes in the family. Amelia's mom was the first female to scale Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Amelia was born on 7/24/189. Amelia
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The first time Amelia saw a pilot she knew that is what she wanted to be. Amelia bought her first plane on her 24th birthday with the money she acquired and kept. Amelia bought her first plane on her 24th birthday with the money she acquired and kept. Her first plane was a yellow plane that was named 'Canary' (McLean, 2001)., Earhart took off from Newfoundland on the 5th year anniversary of when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart went to California to watch a plane show which got her interested in airplanes. Without that show, she may have never been a pilot. Earhart beat many records for flying, and as well had many accidents but was luckily never badly hurt and managed not to get depressed about failures (Harris, …show more content…
Amelia strived to set records so she made plans to fly around the words. Her last flight took off at 6/1/37 at Miami, Florida the trip was supposed to be almost 30,000 miles.Earhart wanted to fly all the way around the world, her plane had been partially obliterated in a pre-liftoff and she had restored it. Almost 30 days later close to the end of the flight Earhart took a stop at New Guinea they had seven thousand miles before the trip was over, Amelia set out again on 7/2/37. Although she couldn't hear the Itasca's messages it could hear hers, ' We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.' Earhart said that the weather was murky and they would need some help, Itasca radioed back multiple times but Earhart never got the messages. The last words heard from her were on 7/2/37 at about 0800. "We are running north and south.” (Harris,