Amelia Earhart was a Brave Woman
Amelia Earhart was born July 24th,1897, in Atchison, Kansas. When Earhart was in her late teens she witnessed a flying exhibition, and in 1920, her father took her for a 10-minute flight that changed her life forever. After that, Amelia knew she wanted to spend her life flying. Earhart took her first flying lessons on January 3, 1921, and in six months saved enough money to buy her own plane. The plane was a two-seater biplane painted a bright yellow which she named “Canary,” and flew it 14,000 feet in the air, setting a new record.
Earhart had many opportunities after she started flying. One day in April 1928, Amelia got a call asking if she would like to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic, she obviously
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Amelia felt the flight across the Atlantic proved that men and women were equal in “jobs requiring intelligence, coordination, speed, coolness and willpower.” Yet again, Earhart succeeded in flying another ocean, the Pacific, solo. As Amelia became older she wanted one last challenge, to fly around the world. Amelia’s first attempted failed and damaged her plane, but she still pushed through. Earhart had her twin engine Lockheed Electra rebuilt. On June first, Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Miami. Noonan kept using maps that were inaccurate which made it difficult to locate their next stop, which was Howland Island. The pair struggled through the rainfall and cloudy weather. Earhart’s radio transmissions cut in and out and the last message that was picked up was, “We must be on you, but we can not see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.” The people who picked up the transmission tried responding but nothing was heard from Amelia. A rescue attempt to find Earhart was the most expensive sea and air search. On July 19, after spending $4 million dollars the government reluctantly called off the operation and announced Amelia legally