Final Stages in the life of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was one of the most famous female aviators of her time. Her courageous and fearless spirit led her on many adventures through flight. Her strong characteristics and leadership inspired women and broke barriers in male dominated fields.She was known as the Lady of Air and Lady Lindy

Amelia Earhart's hand print taken by palmist Nellie Simmons Meier

AMELIA EARHARTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 1928-trans-Atlantic flight as a passenger 1932-solo flight across the Atlantic 1935-solo flight across the Pacific Womens altitude record 14,000 ft.

First woman to win the National Geographic Gold Medal

President of the Ninety-Nines-National Organization for Women Pilots

Began own charter airline

1937-Attempted flight around the world

UNSOLVED MYSTERY??????????
In March 1937, Earhart embarked on the most challenging flight of her career: an effort to fly around the world along the equator . On landing in Hawaii on the first leg of the trip, heading toward that greatest of great circles, she suffered a crash when the landing gear failed. It took two months to repair her specially fitted Lockheed Electra, after which she and navigator Fred Noonan headed in the opposite direction, flying to Puerto Rico. There, speaking to reporters, she prophetically said, I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway, when I have finished this job, I mean to give up longdistance stunt flying.

A month and a half later, Earhart and Noonan were in New Guinea . From there, they set out for southwest of Hawaii that was then used as a refueling station for planes flying to and from the United States and Australia. A few hours before they were scheduled to land, Earhart radioed ahead and reported that she was flying into a storm whose extent she did not know. That was the last anyone heard from her. Conspiratorially minded scholars have advanced several theories concerning Amelia Earharts disappearance. Given the conflict between the United States and Japan, some suggest that she had been photographing Japanese military installations and ship movement and had been taken prisoner, held on the island of Saipan, and then executed.

After the war, according to one book, she wound up living in Bedford Village, New York, under the name Irene Bolam, whose name appeared to be a code which spelled out in degrees and minutes of latitude and longitude the precise location of a tropical beach where Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan crashed after being shot down. (Asked about that, the real Irene Bolam said that she was not Amelia.) Still others hold that the disappearance was staged, either to afford the U.S. Navy an excuse to poke around some of those distant islands or to give Earhart the chance to retire; the story goes that Amelia Earhart lived under a pseudonym in Chicago for many years.

Many still argue that Earhart and Noonan survived the crash and found shelter on an uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands , where, it is variously said, they died of exposure, thirst, illness, or food poisoning. Muriel Earhart Morrissey, Amelias sister, wrote to Emperor Hirohito to ask about the first theory and received a note in reply saying that there was no truth to the story. In her book Amelia, My Courageous Sister, she dismissed the other notions, saying, We knew in our hearts that she wasnt a spy, but a lot of people thought she was. She added that she believed that her sister had simply gotten lost in the storm, ran out of fuel, and crashed into the ocean without a trace. The search still, and so does the mystery

Amelia Earhart was loved and respected nationwide .

FUN FACTS
Amelia was a nurses aide

Amelia married George Putnam the man who financed her first trans- Atlantic flight
Amelia became good friends with Eleanor Roosevelt

Amelia loved to hunt

Amelia was twelve years old before she ever saw an airplane Amelia was the 16th women to own an international pilots license Amelia was a good friend of Orville Wright

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