Historic Flights in the 1920’s
On December 28, 1920 (December, 28 is my birthday)
Frank Hawks took Amelia Earhart in his air plane for a ride. This was her first time riding in one of those rusted uninteresting things as she said. Amelia could not stay on the ground after that experience becausehe was so amazed at how fun it was to fly and be free in midair. Earhart took her first flying lesson on January 3rd, 1921. It only took her six months to save enough money to buy her first plane and just like that she set a new record by being the first woman to rise to the altitude of 14,000 feet. Amelia named her plane Canary for a bird. She also was the first of many other records including first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 15 hours.
In 1920 the first transcontinental airmail service started which is delivering mail by plane. In 1927 Pan American airways started to deliver mail by plane also. Air mail has really helped the development in our country because we could communicate a lot faster and could industrialize faster because of it. Walter T. Varney set up the first commercial air mail which became known as United Airlines.
Charles Lindberg in 1927 set a record for flying 33 hours and 29 minutes across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. Since Charles A. Lindberg successfully made a solo flight to Paris in May 1927 stocks in aviation tripled because people knew if you could travel that far that fast it will be worth a lot of money some day. Congress also passed that the airlines will charge for weight instead of a flat fee and by doing that air lines got a lot more money.
Sources:
http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/bio.html
The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st century, McDougal Littell
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Commercial_Aviation/1920s/Tran1.htm\
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