amelia earhart
Sunday, October 31st, 2010Aviation legend Amelia Earhart is most famous for the mysterious circumstances of her death: she disappeared in 1937 somewhere in the South Pacific, near the end of an attempted round-the-world flight. [1]
Amelia Earhart endures in the American consciousness as one of the world’s most celebrated aviators. [2]
Over sixty years after Amelia Earhart vanished mysteriously in the Pacific during her attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate the world along the equator, Linda Finch, a San Antonio businesswoman, accomplished pilot, and aviation historian, recreated and completed her idol’s last flight as a tribute to the aviation pioneer’s spirit and vision. [3]
She had set many flight records, including becoming the first woman to fly solo across both the Atlantic Ocean (in 1932) and the Pacific Ocean (in 1935). [1]
It was there she was selected to be the first female passenger on a transatlantic flight, in 1928, by her future husband, the publisher, George Palmer Putnam. [2]
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. [4]
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. [5]
She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared near Howland Island in the South Pacific on 2 July 1937, on one of the last legs of their around-the-world flight. [1]
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and setting many aviation records. [4]
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and set many aviation records. [5]
The project coordinators (including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam) interviewed Earhart and asked her to accompany pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon on the flight, nominally as a passenger, but with the added duty of keeping the flight log. [4]
Learning to fly in California, she took up aviation as a hobby, taking odd jobs to pay for her flying lessons. [2]
Guided by her publicist and husband, George Putnam, she made headlines in the era when aviation gripped the public’s imagination. [6]
Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [4]
Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, which she was awarded as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. [5]
Sources:
[1] Amelia Earhart: Biography from Answers.com
[2] Biography of Amelia Earhart
[3] Amelia Earhart’s Legacy Remembered ‘ Infoplease.com
[4] Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia
[5] Amelia Earhart
[6] Amelia Earhart, Pioneering Woman Aviator