Amelia Earhart

Biography

Elizabeth Ariza
Abuchaibe.
 Amelia Mary
Earhart
July 24, 1897.
• In Atchison a small
locality in Kansas in
the United States.
• Parents: Amelia Otis
Earhart, Samuel
Stanton Earhart.
• She and her sister
spent a good part of
his childhood with
her grandparents,
who provided him
with a lifestyle full
of comfort.
 Amelia Mary
Earhart
Childhood.
• In her childhood
Amelia showed a bold
personality, because
she liked games that
were traditionally for
boys such as:
Climbing trees,
sledding and shooting
with a rifle.
• She also liked to
collect newspaper
clippings about
famous women who
excelled in activities
for boys.
 Her First
Contact With
Aviation.
• During World War I, she
and her sister were
volunteer nurses of
pilots wounded in
combat.
• And in 1920 she could go
passenger in a biplane
that flew over L.A during
an air show.
• Her first instructor was
Neta Snook, another
pioneer pilot.
• Her first plane was a
prototype of the Kinner
model nicknamed THE
CANARY.
 HER
ACHIEVEMENTS.
• In 1927 he joined the National
Aeronautical Association. He dedicated
himself to investing money to build an
airstrip, sold Kinner planes and
promoted aviation, especially among
women.
• In 1928, she was the first woman to
cross the Atlantic Ocean along with pilot
Wilmer Stultz and mechanic Luis Gordon.
• In 1930 she was vice president of public
relations for an airline between New
York, Philadelphia and Washington. Her
career as an aviator was not interrupted,
as she broke the speed records for
women in her Lockheed Vega.
• In 1929 he founded the organization The
Ninety-Nine in his hotel room in
Cleveland with other woman pilots, as it
included 99 members.
 HER
HUSBAND.
• She married the journalist
George Putnam in 1931
after working together for
the publication of
Amelia's book called
TWENTY HOURS, FOURTY
MINUTES.
 Her End
• In 1935 She began to plan a trip around
the world. The Lockheed Electra 10E
was the machine of choice. If he did it,
she would mark two milestones: the
first woman to do it and the greatest
possible distance circumnavigating the
globe in its equator. According to her it
was the flight she had left to make.
• She disappeared on July 2, 1937 at the
age of 39 in the Pacific Ocean on the
way to Howland Island, his cause of
death according to the hypothesis was
a plane crash.
• Amelia regularly sent letters to George,
and in one of them she wrote: “Please,
you should know that I am aware of the
dangers, I want to do it because I want
it. Women should try to do things as
men have done. When they failed their
attempts should be a challenge for
others ».