Well you may have seen those funny hats that those aviators (plane drivers) wear. It looks like this:
I don’t know what you think but it reminds me of Amelia Earheart. Amelia Earheart accomplished a lot and that’s what this page is about! Keep on reading if you’re getting interested about Amelia Earheart.
Well Amelia Mary Earheart Putnam was born Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. Her father was a lawyer for a railroad company so he traveled a lot making Amelia and her sister (Muriel Earheart Morrissey) live with their grandparents
On Amelia’s trip to Toronto she was a nurse’s aid in a military hospital in World War I when she was 20 years old. This was what lead her to a few things such as medicine, and social work but when she found flying she knew what she wanted to do.
Amelia as a nurse
Amelia’s first flight was at an airshow with her father in 1920. Her teacher was Neta Snook who was the first female aviator instructor to graduate from the Curtiss School of Aviation.
Amelia then bought her own plane and set records but then sold the plane.
In 1926, a magazine publisher named George Putman tapped Amelia Earheart as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger. In one event she flew Lady Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C.
Amelia in the magazine
In 1931 she married George Putman. She flew solo over the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and in 1935 became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland.
Perdue University hired Amelia to counsel female students on opportunities and in 1937 they gave her a plane.
Well Amelia was determined to fly around the world so her and Fred Noonan (her navigator) began their trip on June 1, 1937.
Amelia about to start her trip around the world
Sadly Amelia and Fred missed their landing on Howland Island in the Pacific and were never seen again. No one knows for sure what happened to them but there are many predictions.
That’s our Biography on Amelia Mary Earheart Putnam.
