Amelia Earhart
She was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Amelia learned to fly while she was lived in California. It was a hobby for her. In 1922, she bought her first airplane, with some help from her family. She moved to Boston and she was a social worker. in 1928, she was chosen to be on a transatlantic flight. She was the first female to do this.
In 1931, she married George P. Putnam. She kept her maiden name though for her flying job. George was a publisher. She wrote a book called 20 Hours-40 Minutes after she flew from Newfoundland to Wales. George and Amelia were a great couple. He would set up her personal apperances and flights. The Fun of It andLast Flightwere two books that George published for her.
In 1932, she was the first female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. In 1935, she flew from Hawaii to the U.S. and by doing that she became the first person to fly across both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. She started her last flight in June of 1937. When she had completed 22,000 miles on her trip, she and her navigator Frederick Noonan disappeared. They left from Lae, New Guinea and they were going to Howland Island. No one really knows what happened to them. Some of the theories are that they ran out of fuel, they crash landed, or that they were taken by the Japanese and blamed for spying. After they disappeared, Amelia's husband wrote a biography of her titledSoaring Wingsin 1939.
I think that Amelia Earhart is a role model. She was brave and daring. It's cool that she was the first woman to do anything like she did. She died doing something she loved, but it stinks that no one knows where she died.
http://www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/AmeliaEarhart/AEBiography.htm
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