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Biography: Life of Amelia Earhart
Born 1897, Died 1937
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She began her flying career in 1921 in Los Angeles where she took flying lessons and bought an airplane. In 1924 personal problems forced her to sell the plane. She moved back East where she was employed as a social worker.
Amelia Earhart returned to aviation in 1928 and bought another plane. She became the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight. Devoted to flying, Amelia Earhart set and broke her own records for speed and distance.
Amelia Earhart married publisher George Palmer Putnam in 1931. Putnam promoted her personal stunts and wrote her biography, Soaring Wings.
In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman, and second person, to fly solo across the Atlantic, her flight taking her from Newfoundland to Ireland.
In 1935 Amelia Earhart became the first person to make a solo flight over the Pacific Ocean, flying from Honolulu to Oakland, California. The following year she began planning her around-the-world flight. Although not the first world circling-flight, it would be the longest at 29,000 miles.
On March 17, 1937, Amelia Earhart flew the first leg of her flight from Oakland, California to Honolulu. When resuming the flight a tire blew causing the plane to crash. The plane was severely damaged and the flight was cancelled.
Amelia Earhart began her second attempt at the flight on June 1, 1937, this time flying from West to East. She was accompanied by Fred Noonan, her navigator. After numerous stops, on June 29 the duo arrived in New Guinea. They had completed 22,000 miles of the flight. On July 2 Earhart and Noonan took off from New Guinea with 7,000 miles of flying over the Pacific Ocean remaining in their flight. Their last positive position report and sighting was about 800 miles into the flight. Neither Earhart nor Noonan had much practical knowledge of the use of radio navigation equipment and her transmissions to the United States Coast Guard were poorly received. After numerous attempts over a number of hours, all contact was lost.
No evidence of Earhart, Noonan or the plane was ever found. It is generally believed that Earhart went off course, that the plane ran out of fuel and that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost at sea.
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