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Books written by Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a successful and heavily promoted writer who served as aviation editor for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928 to 1930. She wrote magazine articles, newspaper columns, essays and published two books based upon her experiences as a flyer during her lifetime:
20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928) was a journal of her experiences as the first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight.
The Fun of It (1932) was a memoir of her flying experiences and an essay on women in aviation.
The Final Flight
(1937) featured the periodic journal entries she sent back to the United States during her world flight attempt, published in newspapers in the weeks prior to her final departure from New Guinea. Compiled by her husband GP Putnam after she disappeared over the Pacific, many historians consider this book to be only partially Earhart's original work.
Picture of Earhart's book,20hrs,40min
Picture of Earhart's book, The Final Flight
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Competitive Races
Although i had gained alittle fame for my transtlantic flight, i wanted very much to set an "untarnished" record of my own. Shortly after my return, piloting Avian 7083, i set off on my first long solo flight which occurred just as my name was coming into the spotlight. By making the trip in August 1928, i became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back. cool u may say. i subsequently made the first attempt at competitive air racing in 1929 during the first Santa Monica-to-Cleveland Women's Air Derby (later nicknamed the "Powder Puff Derby" by Will Rogers), placing third. In 1930, i became an official of the National Aeronautic Association where i actively promote the establishment of separate womens' records and was instrumental in the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)-the association i got my license from, accepting a similar international standard. In 1931, flying a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro, i set a world altitude record of 18,415 feet (5613 m) in a borrowed company machine.
During the period, i soon became involved with The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots providing moral support and advancing the cause of women in aviation. i called a meeting of women pilots in 1929 following the Women's Air Derby. i suggested the name based on the number of the charter members; i later became the organization's first president in 1930. i was a vigorous advocate for women pilots and when the 1934 Bendix Trophy race banned women, i openly refused to fly screen actress Mary Pickford to Cleveland to open the races which of course stirred up alot of tention but that's one thing that comes when you are under the public eye,gossips are bound to follow.picture taken from:http://www.airventuremuseum.org/images/collection/aircraft/Pitcairn%20PCA-2%20Autogiro-7.jpg
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VideoThis video is about eyewitnesses to Amelia Earhart's plane on Saipan in 1944 being interviewed.
Copyright:Richard Martini,taken off youtube.com
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http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/explorers/earhart
Inspiration For Women
Amelia Earhart wasn't afraid to break down barriers. In 1928, she was the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean. Then, in 1932, she became the first woman to pilot a plane across that ocean. There weren't many female pilots back then and her actions inspired other women to follow their dreams. This was especially important because there were few career choices available to women at that time. Amelia Earhart has inspired generations of women to do things that had never been done by women before.
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Final approach to Howland Island
Through a series of misunderstandings or errors (the details of which are still controversial), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation was never accomplished. Some sources have noted Earhart's apparent lack of understanding of her Bendix direction finding loop antenna, which at the time was very new technology.
Another cited cause of possible confusion was that the USCG cutter Itasca and Earhart planned their communication schedule using time systems set a half hour apart (with Earhart using Greenwich Civil Time (GCT) and the Itasca under a Naval time zone designation system). Motion picture evidence from Lae suggests that an antenna mounted underneath the fuselage may have been torn off from the fuel-heavy Electra during taxi or takeoff from Lae's turf runway.
Don Dwiggins, in his biography of Paul Mantz (who assisted Earhart and Noonan in their flight planning), noted that the aviators had cut off their long-wire antenna, due to the annoyance of having to crank it back into the aircraft after each use.
During Earhart and Noonan's approach to Howland Island, the Itasca received strong, relatively clear voice transmissions from Earhart but she apparently was unable to hear transmissions from the ship. Earhart's transmissions seemed to indicate she and Noonan believed they had reached Howland's charted position, which was incorrect by about five nautical miles (10 km). The Itasca used her oil-fired boilers to generate smoke for a period of time but the fliers apparently did not see it. The many scattered clouds in the area around Howland Island have also been cited as a problem: their dark shadows on the ocean surface may have been almost indistinguishable from the island's subdued and very flat profile.
Many search parties sent out and the Istasca made an ultimately unsuccessful search for Earhart, Noonan and the plane, but no physical evidence was recovered. Sources have cited possible reasons for their disappearance. However, no concrete proof or evidence was ever found. There were few clues on where or how they disappeared. The one theory most discussed is that the Electra ran out of fuel and Earhart and Noonan crashed into the sea, despite the fact that the aircraft was not located after two extensive, deep-sea sonar searches in 2002 and again in 2006.
Up till today, no one knows what happened to Amelia Earhart. The mystery of her disappearance remains to this day.
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1937 World Flight
I joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and as a technical advisor to the Department of Aeronautics.
In July 1936, I took delivery of a LockHeed 10E Electra financed by Purdue. Then, I started planning a round-the-world flight. It would be the longest at approximately 29,000 miles (47,000 km), following a grueling equatorial route. Although the Electra was known as a "flying laboratory," little useful science was planned and the flight seems to have been arranged around my intention to travel the world and gather information and public attention for my next book.
My first choice for the navigator was Harry Manning, captain of the ship which bought me back to Europe in 1928. Fred Noonan was subsequently chosen as the second navigator. He was experienced in both marine and flight navigation. Noonan had been responsible for training Pan American's navigators for the route between San Francisco and Manila. The original plans were for Noonan to navigate from Hawaii to Howland Island, a particularly difficult part of the flight; then Manning would proceed with me to Australia and I would continue on my own for the remainder of the project.
I had hoped to start on the flight as soon as possible, but due to many errors and mechanical problems, the flight was delayed.
On 2 July 1937, Noonan and I(he was my only crew member and navigator after the failed second attempt)took off from Lae in the Electra. Our intended destination was Howland Island. Our last position report was near the Nukumanu Islands, about 800 miles (1,300 km) into the flight. The United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with my Lockheed Electra 10E and guide us to the island once we arrived.
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Solo Flights
On 11 January 1935, I became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California. Although this flight had been attempted time and again by many others, especially by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race which had reversed the route, my flight had been mainly routine and rather smooth sailing, with no mechanical breakdowns. That year, on 19 April, I also flew a solo flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City, once more on my faithful Vega which I nicknamed "old Bessie, the fire horse." My next record attempt was a nonstop flight from Mexico City to New York. My flight was pretty much uneventful.
I again participated in long-distance air racing. I won fifth in the 1935 Bendix Trophy Race. It was the best I could manage as, unfortunately, my Vega could not beat the other purpose-built air racers which reached more than 300 mph. The race was particularly challenging. One competitor, Cecil Allen, died in a fiery takeoff mishap and rival Jacqueline Cochran was forced to quit due to mechanical problems and the violent thunderstorms that plagued the race.
Between 1930–1935, I set seven women's speed and distance records in a variety of airplanes(including the Kinner Airster, Lockheed Vega and Pitcairn Autogiro). By 1935, recognizing the many limitations of my lovely red Vega in long-distance flights, I contemplated a new prize... one flight which I most wanted to attempt - a circumnavigation of the globe as near its waistline as could be.
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Competitive FlyingAlthough I had gained fame from my transtlantic flight, I wanted, and aimed, to set a record of my own. Shortly after my return, piloting Avian 7083, I set off on my first long solo flight. It happened just when my name was coming into the national spotlight, and when I was starting to become slightly famous. I became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back after the trip I made in August 1928. Shortly after, I attempted, for the first time, competitive air racing in 1929.
After trying out something bolder for the first time, I decided to do bigger things. I aimed for greater things. I wanted to set a world record.
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My Early Flying Experiences
On 8 December 1920 one day, in Long Beach, my father and I visited an airfield. There, Frank Hawks(who later gained fame as an air racer) gave me a ride.By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I was meant to fly.
After the ten-minute flight, I was immediately determined to learn how to fly. Driven by passion, I worked hard, earning enough money for the flying lessons.
I had my first flying lessons on 3 January 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach. My teacher was Anita ''Neta'' Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtis JN-4 ''Canuck" for training. I arrived with my
father and told her, ''I want to fly. Will you teach me?"
Six months later, I purchased a second-hand bright yellow Kinner Airster biplane which I nicknamed "The Canary."
My foremost dream had come true.
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Monday, August 27, 2007&&
Romance and I
I was at first engaged to Samuel Chapman, a chemical engineer from Boston, breaking off the engagement on 23 November 1928. During the same period, George Putnam and I had spent a great deal of time together, leading to intimacy between us.
George Putnam, who was known as GP by all our friends, was divorced in 1929 and sought me out, proposing to me numerous times before I finally gave him my hand in marriage. After substantial hesitation on my part, we married on 7 February 1931 in George's mother's house in Noank, Connecticut. I referred to my marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control." In a letter written to George and hand delivered to him on the day of the wedding, I wrote to him, "I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. I just did not like the thought of being so clingly and so bound to marriage as if it were a contract of some sort.
My ideas on marriage were liberal for the time as I believed in equal responsibilities for both parties and pointedly kept my own name rather than being referred to as Mrs. Putnam. When The New York Times, per the rules of its stylebook, insisted on referring me to as Mrs. Putnam, I was so tickled by it that I laughed. GP also learned quite soon that he would be called "Mr. Earhart." There was no honeymoon for us, the newlyweds as I was involved in a nine-day cross-country tour promoting autogyros and the tour sponsor, "Beechnut Gum."
Although we had no children together, he had two sons by his previous marriage to Dorothy Binney (1888-1982), a chemical heiress whose father's company, Binney & Smith, invented Crayola crayons , the coolest kid thing on earth at that time! The two boys were rather fine children and were named David Binney Putnam(1913-1992) and George Palmer Putnam, Jr. (born 1921 ). I was especially fond of David who frequently visited George at our family home in Rye, New York. George had contracted polio shortly after his parents' separation and was unable to visit as often.
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Another Timeline
1897
Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas July 24th
1916
Graduates from Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Illinois
1917
Volunteers as a nurse at Spadina Military Convalescent Hospital in Toronto, Canada, for the "walking wounded" of World War One
1919
Enrolls in the pre-med program of Columbia University, New York
1920
Leaves Columbia University after one semester
Joins her parents in Los Angeles, California
Takes her first flight with Frank Hawks
1921
Completes her flying lessons with Neta Snook and purchases her first aircraft - the Kinner Airster
1922
Sets an unofficial women's flying altitude record of 14,000 feet
1924
Sells Kinner Airster and buys an automobile
Drives her mother to Massachusetts and settles with her younger sister, Muriel
1926
Works as a social worker with children at the Denison House in Boston, Massachusetts
1927
Writes Ruth Nichols about forming an organization for women who fly
1928
Is recognized as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger (June)
Buys Avro Avian Airplane
Writes 20 Hrs. 40 Min
Completes the first transcontinental flight by a woman (Sept/October)
1929
Acquires a single engine Lockheed Vega aircraft
Competes in Women's Air Derby (Santa Monica to Cleveland) - finishes in third place
Helps organize The Ninety-Nines (November)
1930
Sets the women's world flying speed record of 181.18 mph (July)
Acquires her air transport license (October)
1931
Becomes the first president of The Ninety-Nines
Marries George Palmer Putnam in Noank, Connecticut (February)
Acquires an autogiro and sets a women's autogiro altitude record of 18,415 feet (April)
Completes her first solo transcontinental flight in an autogiro for the Beechnut Company (May/June)
1932
Writes The Fun of It
Becomes the first woman (and second person) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in her single engine Lockheed Vega and the first person to cross the Atlantic twice by air
Sets women's record for fastest non-stop transcontinental flight (Los Angeles, California to Newark, New Jersey) in 19 hrs and 5 mins (August)
Is awarded the Army Air Corps Distinguished Flying Cross
Becomes the second non-British pilot to receive Honorary Membership in the British Guild of Airpilots and Navigators
Is awarded the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society, presented by President Herbert Hoover
Receives honorary membership in the National Aeronautic Association
Wins the Harmon Trophy as America's Outstanding Airwoman
1933
Participates in the National Air Races in Los Angeles, California
Breaks her own North American transcontinental record with a flying time of 17 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds
Wins the Harmon Trophy
1934
Wins the Harmon Trophy for the third year in a row
1935
Is the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California in 17 hours and 7 minutes (January)
Is the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California to Mexico City, Mexico by official invitation from the Mexican Government (April)
Is the first woman to compete in the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio
Named America's Outstanding Airwoman by Harmon Trophy committee
1936
Takes delivery of Lockheed twin-engined airplane financed by Purdue University (July)
Starts to plan her round-the-world flight
1937
Begins her round-the-world flight in Oakland, California and sets a record for east-west (Oakland to Hawaii) travel in 15 hours and 47 minutes (March)
Ground loops plane while taking off from Hawaii for Howland Island and badly damages it (March)
Airplane is repaired and a second round-the-world attempt is started from Miami, Florida (June)
Disappears near Howland Island July 2, 1937
Compiled by Pamela O'Brien1998
Here are some other sources of information about Amelia Earhart:
The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers at Purdue University Amelia Earhart Snapshots, Oahu, 1935
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http://www.aviationhistory.org/media/images/etc/Amelia_Earhart.jpg
i always had a problem with my sinus.
i don't know why he picked me to be his enemy.
life is interesting, isn't it?
MR Sinus and me
In 1924, I was hospitalised because of a unsuccessful sinus operation. Consequently, I sold the "Canary" and bought a yellow kissel roadster which I named the "Yellow Peril". I tried my hand at a number of interesting ventures which included setting up a photography company but set out in a new direction. My parents had a terrible divorce in 1924 and I brought my mum on a transcontinental trip from California to Calgary, Alberta.
The meandering tour eventually brought us to Boston where I underwent a new sinus surgery that was more successful this time round. After recuperation, I returned for several motnths to Columbia University but was forced to abandon my study plans because mother could no longer afford the tuition fees. Soon, i found a job first as a teacher then as a social worker in 1925 at Denison House, living in Medford.
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Maps of Amelia Earhart's Travels.
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Her Honours- Amelia Earhart Centre And Wildlife Sanctuary was established at the site of her 1932 landing in Northern Ireland, Ballyarnet Country Park, Derry.
- The "Earhart Tree" at the State Capital grounds, Hawaii was planted by Amelia Earhart in 1935.
- The Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards were established in 1938.
- "Earhart Light" (also known as the "Amelia Earhart Light"), is a day beacon on Howland Island (said to be crumbling).
- The Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarships (established in 1939 by The Ninety-Nines), provides scholarships to women for advanced pilot certificates and ratings, jet type ratings, college degrees and technical training.
- In 1942, a United States Liberty ship named SS Amelia Earhart was launched (it was wrecked in 1948).
- Amelia Earhart Field (1947), formerly Masters Field and Miami Municipal Airport, after closure in 1959, the Amelia Earhart Regional Park was dedicated in an area of undeveloped federal government land located north and west of the former Miami Municipal Airport and immediately south of Opa-locka Airport.
- The Purdue University Amelia Earhart Scholarship is based on academic merit and leadership and is open to juniors and seniors enrolled in any school at the West Lafayette campus. After being discontinued in the 1970s, a donor resurrected the award in 1999.
- Amelia Earhart Commemorative Stamp (8¢ airmail postage) was issued in 1963 by the United States Postmaster-General.
- The Civil Air Patrol Amelia Earhart Award (since 1964) is awarded to cadets who have completed the first 11 achievements of the cadet program along with receipt of the General Billy Mitchell Award.
- Member of National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
- The Amelia Earhart Birthplace[4], Atchison, Kansas (a museum and National Historic Site, owned and maintained by The Ninety-Nines).
- Amelia Earhart Airport, located in Atchison, Kansas.
- Amelia Earhart Bridge, located in Atchison, Kansas.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Alameda, California.
- Amelia Earhart International Baccalaureate World School, located in Indio, California.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Hialeah, Florida.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Lafayette, Indiana.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Goddard, Kansas.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Dallas, Texas.
- Amelia Earhart Elementary School, located in Provo, Utah.
- Amelia Earhart Hotel, located in Wiesbaden, Germany, originally used as a hotel for women, then as temporary military housing is now operated as the United States Army Contracting Agency office.
- Amelia Earhart Road, located in Oklahoma City (headquarters of The Ninety-Nines), Oklahoma.
UCI Irvine Amelia Earhart Award (since 1990). - Amelia Earhart Intermediate School, located in Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.
Member of Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (1992). - Earhart Foundation, located in Ann Arbor, MI. Established in 1995, the foundation funds research and scholarship through a network of 50 "Earhart professors" across the United States.
- Amelia Earhart Festival (annual event since 1996),located in Atchison, Kansas.
- Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award, Atchison, Kansas: Since 1996, the Cloud L. Cray Foundation provides a $10,000 women’s scholarship to the educational institution of the honoree’s choice.
- Amelia Earhart Earthwork in Warnock Lake Park, Atchison, Kansas. Stan Herd created the one-acre landscape mural from permanent plantings and stone to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Earhart's birth. Located at 39.537621° N 95.145158° W and best viewed from the air.
- Earhart Corona, a corona on Venus was named by the (IAU).
- Greater Miami Aviation Association Amelia Earhart Award for outstanding achievement (2006); first recipient: noted flyer Patricia "Patty" Wagstaff.
- On 6 December 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Amelia Earhart into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.
- USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6) was named in her honor in May 2007
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Her Travels
Charles Lindberg made his record breaking trip across the Atlantic Ocean in the year 1927. This inspired Amelia to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. At first, Earhart joined Wilmer L. Stutz and Louis E. Gordon in their bright red Fokker F.VII named the Friendship on their 2,000-mile (3,219-kilometer) trip to Wales on 4 June 1928. Earhart had no part in piloting the plane during the 20-hour, 40-minute trip and was, in her words, "just baggage," making her even more eager to cross the Atlantic on her own.
On 20-21 May 1932 Amelia accomplished her goal of flying across the Atlantic Ocean Solo. She took off from Newfoundland, Canada, at 7:12 p.m. on May 20, in her Lockheed Vega. Her flight was filled with dangers, from rapidly changing weather to a broken altimeter so she could not tell how high she was flying, to gasoline leaking into the cockpit. At one point her plane dropped almost 3,000 feet (914 meters) and went into a spin (which she managed to pull out of) and flames were shooting out of the exhaust manifold. She brought her plane down on the coast of Ireland after a harrowing trip lasting 15 hours and 18 minutes The flight was the second solo flight across the Atlantic and the longest nonstop flight by a woman--2,026 miles (3,261 kilometers)--as well as the first flight across the Atlantic by a woman. President Herbert Hoover awarded her the National Geographic Society Medal on June 21, 1932, for her achievement, and the U.S. Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross, the first woman to receive such an honor.
Earhart's accomplishment meant a great deal to the entire world, but especially to women, for it demonstrated that women could set their own course in aviation and other fields.
This lead to all her other travels such as a solo long-distance flight over the Pacific Ocean, flying from Honolulu, Hawaii, to San Francisco, California. This complicated flight in her second Lockheed Vega occurred in adverse weather conditions and demonstrated Earhart's courage as well as her stubbornness.
She followed that flight with two more first solo flights--one on April 19-20 from Los Angles, California, to Mexico City, in 13 hours, 23 minutes and the second on May 8, 1935, from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey, in 14 hours, 19 minutes.
Amelia Earhart wanted to be the first person to fly around the world at its widest, close to the equator. Her first attempt at the world flight began on March 17, 1937, in Oakland, California, but ended abruptly with a runway crash in Honolulu, Hawaii, after a tire blew and a shock absorber on the landing gear failed. Earhart decided to repair the damaged plane and try again.
The flight began again on May 20, 1937, this time heading from Oakland to Miami, Florida. But it was plagued with mechanical problems along the way that resulted in further delays. Eventually she and Fred Noonan, her navigator, reached Miami and made final adjustments to the plane's engines and instruments. Finally, Earhart and Noonan were ready to depart.
What turned out to be the final flight of Earhart's career, and, ultimately, her life, began on June 1, 1937. Earhart and Noonan left for their round-the-world flight from Miami, Florida, in her twin-engine, red-winged Electra. From Miami, they flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Right before taking off on this leg of the flight, Earhart was quoted as saying, "I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway, when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance 'stunt' flying."
Their next destination, and the most dangerous stop of the trip, was Howland Island, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, 2,556 miles (4,113 kilometers) away. Before Earhart took off from Lae on July 1, there was confusion about which radio frequencies were to be used, which remained unresolved before she took off. As the scheduled time neared for Earhart to approach the island, several transmissions were received from her, demanding to know the weather. A new weather report describing heavy clouds and rain northwest of Howland had been issued, and Earhart had apparently run into the storm.
Earhart transmitted several more times but never reached her destination, disappearing somewhere off the coast of the island. A large search party was quickly organized, but no remains of the crew and the plane were ever found.
All search was unsuccessful and there was no evidence found. Two theories, though, emerged; disappearance and crash and sink theory. Although Amelia Mary Earhart was at a young age of 39 when she went missing, she is an excellent role model for women all over the world.
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Adulthood
I went to college and liked English and languages but most of all, I liked Science. I didn't make many friends in school. Under my picture in my 1916 yearbook, a message said,"The girl in brown who walks alone." This hurt me a lot.
I returned to Los Angeles to visit my parents, who had recently gotten back together after being separated. Sam Chapman, a young chemical engineer, liked me a lot and proposed to me many times. I liked Sam but not enough to marry him. One day, my father took me to an air circus where they learned that it took most people about ten hours to learn how to fly. I signed up for a trial flight and when it was over, I knew that I wanted to fly.
I decided to take lessons but they cost $500 and my father couldn't afford to pay. To pay for the lessons, I got my first job working in the mail room of a telephone office. During the flying lessons, I learned how to do take-offs, landings, slips, stalks, spins, and loops. I did not learn how to do stunts. Most of the time, I hung around watching and listening. I dressed like most of the other flyers and wore khaki pants, a scarf, knee-length flying jacket and a helmet. By the next summer, I had my own plane, a Kinner Canary.
In 1924, after my parents got a divorce, I sold my plane and bought a car to take my mother to Boston. In Boston, I became a social worker at the Denison House, the oldest house there. I worked mostly with Syrian and Chinese foreigners. I spent most of my time at the Denison House and had little time to fly.
Four years later, I was chosen to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. I was accompanied by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. We started in Trepassey, Newfoundland and ended our trip in Wales. Overall, the trip took twenty hours and forty minutes. When I got back, I was the center of attention and was automatically famous, even though I was only a passenger.
After I flew over the Atlantic, I bought an Avro Moth and went to California. In 1929, I flew in the first Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio. I sold my Avro Moth and bought a Lockhead Vega for the Derby. Twenty women were entered in it and the whole race took eight days. I placed third. In 1931, I married George Palmer Putnam. We were married at his mother's house in Connecticut. In 1932, I decided I wanted to fly across the Atlantic again and this time alone. I took off on May 20, from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. I didn't drink coffee or tea. I used smelling salts to keep me awake. I landed in Londonderry, Ireland, fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes later. My dream now was to fly around the world.
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Things Named After Amelia Earhart1) Earhart Foundation2) Amelia Earhart Bridge3) Amelia Earhart Airport
4) Amelia Earhart Festival 5) Amelia Earhart Earthwork
6) Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award
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Friday, August 24, 2007&&
Chronology of Amelia Earhart - 1897 - Born Atchison, Kansas, July 24.
- 1915 - Graduated from Hyde Park High School Chicago.
- 1916 - Studied at Ogontz School at Philadelphia.
- 1918 - Worked as a Nurses' Aide under the Canadian Red Cross.
- 1919 - Went to New York and was enrolled for medicine at Columbia University.
- 1920 - Joined her parents in Los Angeles and trained for the development and use of an aircraft at Rogers Airport. After ten hours of instruction, she made her first solo flight.
- 1926 - Attended Harvard Law School. Took up social service work and was connected with Denison House in Boston. She was later elected to the board of directors.
- 1928 - Was one of the five incorporators of Denison Aircraft Corporation that established a commercial airport at Squantum. She was invited to join Wilbur Stultz, pilot, and Louis Gordon, mechanic, in a flight across the Atlantic.
- 1929 - Became vice president of the New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airways Corporation and president of the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association.
- 1930 - Aviation Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
- 1931 - Married Publisher George Palmer Putnam on February 7. Published The Fun of It.
- 1932 - Flew alone across the Atlantic May 20-21, the first woman to do so, in 13 hours, 30 minutes--a new trans-Atlantic record. For this achievement she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France; was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and received the gold medal of the National Geographic Society. Made her first autogiro flight, and later made the record altitude flight in this plane.
- 1935 - In January, she became the first woman to fly from Hawaii to Oakland. In May, she flew non-stop from Mexico City to New York City in fourteen hours, nineteen minutes.
- 1936 - Became a traveling faculty member and aeronautics and career advisor at Purdue University.
- 1937 - In March, accompanied by Fred Noonan, navigator, she started on a flight around the world. Flew from California to Hawaii but crashed at Honolulu as she was taking off on a second leg of the trip. Returning to the United States, she prepared for another attempt in June 1. She flew south from Miami and went to many other places. The Coast-Guard cutter, Itasca, attempted to establish radio contact with her plane, but because of a difference of frequencies the Itasca radioman was unable to give her bearing. The greatest search party in flight history was sent out, but no trace was ever found of the plane or fliers.
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My Childhood
I was named Amelia Mary Earhart after my grandmothers Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton. My sister, Muriel, nicknamed Pidge, and I always explored our neighbourhood for interesting and exciting pursuits. Pidge and I used to climb trees, hunt rats with a rifle and even belly-slamming our sled downhill. It was really fun. We used to keep "worms, moths, katydids and a tree toad" gathered from our outings. Well once I tried to build my own roller coaster after seeing one during my trip to ST. Louis. I emerged from the broken wooden box that had served as a sled with a bruised lip, torn dress and a sensation of exhilaration. I exclaimed, "Oh, Pidge, it's just like flying!" When I was about eleven I saw my first airplane at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. My father tried to interest me and my sister in taking a flight. However, at that point of time I saw the plane as nothing but a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting. While my parents were a trying to find a small home in Des Moines, my sister Muriel and I stayed with our grandparents. We were home schooled until our family reunited in Des Moines. Then we went to public schools with me entering seventh grade.
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Books written by Amelia Earhart
Another Timeline
Her Honours
Her Travels
Things Named After Amelia Earhart
Chronology of Amelia Earhart 
My Childhood
