Amelia Earhart Biography

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly

solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Born July 24th, 1897 in Kansas, USA. She married George Putnam in 1931 and disappeared July 2nd, 1937 in the Bermuda triangle.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others -Amelia Earhart

Close Call

It was a very foggy day and she couldn't see where she was going. At this time, flying technology wasn't very good so she had to rely on eyesight. She was close to the ground but luckily the fog was clear so she landed safely.

But where there are close calls, there are...

Epic Fails

-her engine cut out and she landed in a cabbage patch

-she landed in a bed of tall weeds which stopped the plane, broke her seat belt and threw her out

-she landed in a muddy field and her plane tipped over

Achievements

-altitude record for a woman (14,000ft)

-president of ninety-nines

-first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo

-first woman to fly solo non-stop from coast to coast

-broke the woman's speed record of 2,447 miles in 17 hours and seven minutes

-first woman to fly solo across the Pacific (between Honolulu and Oakland)

- round the world flight (Red Sea to India)

-and lots more!

-written by Candace Fleming

-not authorized

-published in 2011 by Schwartz and Wade books

Solo Flying

-wanted to try the flight by herself

-flew in a bright red Lockheed Vega

-had a gauge malfunctions

-altimeter stopped working

-her fuel gauge was leaking

-her engine caught on fire

From Childhood to Adulthood

Hard Times

-graduated from high school in Chicago in 1916

-In 1917 she decided to spend Christmas with her

sister here in Toronto

-World war one was coming to an end

-saw for men with crutches so she decided to drop

out of college to work in a hospital to make a change

-In 1918 she visited a military flying field and got the passion to fly a plane

-Difficult to make a living and earn money

-she needed to save up for her flying lessons

and later on, her own plane

-had to work several jobs

-In 1922 she bought her first plane, the

Kinner Airster

-her Grandma dies in 1911

-her dad struggles with alcoholism

Who is she?

Last Flight

Flying

-wanted to try to do fly around the world

-plane was called the Lockheed Electra

-27,000 miles

-brought along two navigators

-took two years of planning

-tried to teach her how to use a radio but she wouldn't listen

-two attempts

-her plane's landing gear broke and the plane

was sliding along the runaway

-her second attempt was better and took off on

May 21, 1937

-she lost contact with the radio operators during the last part of the flight

-declared missing in the Bermuda triangle on July 2, 1937

-finally received her pilots license in 1923

-accepted an offer to fly with two other

pilots to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in

1928

-plane was called the friendship

-many obstacles during this flight

-almost fell out of the plane catching

an extra barrel of fuel

Amelia and her flying instructor Neta Snook

Childhood

Amelia's high school

-was eleven when she saw her first plane

-the Wright brothers had just invented the first plane

-liked doing things that boys did

-loved going on adventures

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