Amelia Earhart Research Paper

Intro

Amelia Earhart The person I chose to do my paper on was Amelia Earhart. I wanted to research this person’s life because I had studied a little bit about Amelia in my previous history classes and I always wondered about what happened to Amelia on her last flight. I thought Amelia was a very courageous woman. She never backed down from breaking history and she did break history a few times. I think she was an independent woman who wanted to make a name for herself. After I did my research on her, I found out that she was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She also was not scared to attempt the flight around the world. Unfortunately, she disappeared on her flight and no one knows what happened to her. Amelia Earhart was

Last Flight

Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight “There is nothing special about flying around the world,” George Putnam told his wife Amelia. “People have already done it” (Earhart 73). “Yes,” Amelia replied, “but nobody has ever done it at the Equator, where the distance around the earth is the greatest” (Earhart 73).

From left to right: Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Harry Manning and Fred Noonan. Oakland, California, March 17, 1937 (Summer of 1937 she was about to turn 40 years

Some of the 28 phases of flight were officially registered as world records. Schedule trip was very tight, leaving virtually no time for rest. July 2, 1937, Amelia and Fred Noonan took off from Lae - a small town on the coast of Papua New Guinea, and went to a small island Howland, located in the central Pacific Ocean. This phase of flight was the longest and dangerous - to track down after nearly 24 hours of flight in the Pacific island barely rising above the water, it was a difficult task for navigation technology 30s. Ordered by President Roosevelt on Howland was built airstrip, especially for flight Earhart. Here, the plane waited officials and members of the press, and the coast guard ship was the Coast Guard "Itasca" periodically to maintain with aircraft radio