Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
amelia earhart
AMELIA EARHART
Amelia Mary Earhart Otis
Life
She was born in July 24th, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, United States. She disapeared in July 2nd, 1937 while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Family
Amelia´s parents and sister
Amelia Earhart was born to Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867-1930) and Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart.(1869–1962).
Edwin worked for the Rock Island Railroad as a lawyer.
Samuel with Amelia (left) an her sister, Muriel (right).
Residence
and
Studies
Residence and Studies
She spent most of her childhood in Atchison (Kansas), where she lived with her grandfather.
By the age of eight, she moved to Des Moines (Iowa) with her family.
After the death of her beloved grandmother and when her father got fired, they moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Then, they moved to Springfield, Misouri, where her father was going to find a job, but when he didn´t, Amelia (mother) took her daughters and they ran away to Chicago.
During the First Global War, she worked in Toronto, Canada with her sister as a nurse.
In 1920, the whole family managed to meet in California.
After going for a plane ride in 1920, Amelia Earhart developed...
After going for a plane ride in 1920, Amelia Earhart developed a passion for aviation and not only became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic but also the first person to traverse the Atlantic and Pacific.
Earhart was instrumental in the formation of an organization for female pilots, a member of the National Woman’s Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Earhart was instrumental in the formation of an organizati...
Beginings of her career
When 10-year-old Amelia Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair, she was not impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,” she dismissively said. It wasn’t until she attended a stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriously interested in aviation.
Beginings of her career
January 3, 1921
She began flying lessons with Neta Snook
January 3, 1921
July 1921
She bought her first plane, the Kinner Airster named The Canary.
July 1921
Achievements
Achievements
August 1929
October 22, 1922
Fall 1928
Placed third in the First Women´s Air Derby.
Broke women´s altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet.
Published the book 20 Hours 40 Minutes and became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
May 20-21, 1932
Fall 1932
June 1, 1937
Frist woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (14 hrs 56 mins).
Elected president of the Ninety Nines, a new women´s aviation club which she helped to form.
Began the fight around the world.
She was the first person to fly from the Red Sea to India.
Disappearance
On July 2nd, At 10 a.m. the pair took off. Despite ideal weather reports, they flew into overcast skies and intermittent rain showers. This made flying difficult. Earhart called the ITASCA, reporting “cloudy weather, cloudy.” The ITASCA sent her a steady stream of transmissions, but she could not hear them. Her radio transmissions, irregular through most of the flight, were faint or interrupted with static. At 7:42 a.m., 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 a.m., Earhart reported, “We are running north and south.” Nothing further was heard from her.
Disappearance
Amelia's body was found in 1940
80 years after a woman's body was found in a pacific island called Nikumaroro, a bone test confirmed that that corpse was Amelia's.
Legacy
Despite many theories, though, no proof of Earhart’s fate exists. There is no doubt, however, that the world will always remember Amelia Earhart for her courage, vision, and groundbreaking achievements, both in aviation and for women.