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Amelia Earhart

By: Meredith Ordonio

Died: July 2, 1937

Born: July 24, 1897

Childhood

Visionary or Not?

When Amelia was 6 years old she saw her first plane, she was not impressed, she thought that it was just a stupid piece of junk. By the time she was sixteen she went to her first air show. Her father was a railroad employee so they traveled around the states a lot,. She thought that if a plane could fly across cities why not across the Atlantic ocean for people could get to other places and the world quicker.

ONCE IN A MILLION CHANCE

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean. She was visionary because she had an idea that made us be able to fly across different parts of the world.

The definition of visionary is a person thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. Amelia Earhart fits this description.

Nobody knows how she died, but we only know that she ran out of fuel on her plane, and nobody has ever heard a word from her since.

One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work. "I'm too busy to answer just now," she said. After hearing that it was important, Earhart relented, though she thought it was a prank. It wasn't until the caller supplied excellent references that she realized the man was serious. "How would you like to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic?" he asked, to which Earhart promptly replied, "Yes!" After an interview in New York with the project coordinators.

"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."

-Amelia Earhart

The Day She Disappeared

Quote from Amelia

"Adventure is

worthwhile in itself."

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan set off on their journey in 1937. On July 2nd, At 10 am local time, zero Greenwich time, the pair took off. Despite ideal weather reports, they flew into overcast skies and intermittent rain showers. This made Noonan's favored method of tracking, celestial navigation, difficult. As dawn neared, Earhart called the ITASCA, reporting "cloudy weather, cloudy." In later transmissions, . Her radio transmissions, irregular through most of the flight, were faint or interrupted with static. At 7:42 am, the Itasca picked up the message, "We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet." The ship tried to reply, but the plane seemed not to hear. At 8:45, Earhart reported, "We are running north and south." Nothing further was heard from her.

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