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    Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and women's rights advocate. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and held several altitude records. Earhart advocated for women's involvement in aviation and other non-traditional fields. In 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempted around-the-world flight, and their fate remains unknown.

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    Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and women's rights advocate. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and held several altitude records. Earhart advocated for women's involvement in aviation and other non-traditional fields. In 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempted around-the-world flight, and their fate remains unknown.

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    Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and women's rights advocate. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and held several altitude records. Earhart advocated for women's involvement in aviation and other non-traditional fields. In 1937, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempted around-the-world flight, and their fate remains unknown.

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    Amelia Earhart:

    Aviator,
    Women’s Rights
    Advocate
    And Many
    More…

    Created by: Nanuka Matitashvili


    • Birthdate: July 24, 1897, in
    Atchison, Kansas, United
    States.

    • Early interest in aviation


    sparked during a World
    War I airshow.

    • Earhart attended Ogontz


    School in Pennsylvania and
    later enrolled in Columbia
    University, studying
    medicine and social work.
    • 1921: Earhart began
    taking flying lessons.

    • 1923: Became the 16th


    woman in the world to
    earn a pilot's license.
    Set altitude records
    and established herself

    as a skilled pilot.
    Amelia Earhart with her plane, the "Friendship."
    June 17, 1928: First woman to fly across
    the Atlantic (as a passenger).

    May 20-21, 1932: Solo flight


    across the Atlantic (first woman
    and second person to achieve
    Amelia Earhart with her plane, the "Lockheed Vega."
    August 24-25, 1932: First
    woman to fly solo across the
    United States.

    Earhart completed the journey


    from Los Angeles to Newark in
    19 hours, 5 minutes.
    • Women's Rights Advocate: • Fashion and Style:

    Amelia Earhart was a Earhart became a fashion


    strong advocate for icon of her time, known for
    women's rights, her practical yet stylish
    particularly in the context clothing choices, including
    of professional and non- her signature leather flying
    traditional fields. jacket.

    She served as a role model Her fashion sense helped


    for women, encouraging challenge traditional
    them to break barriers and gender norms and inspired
    pursue their passions a new generation of women
    without limitations. to embrace both fashion
    and adventure.
    • Posthumous Recognition:
    • Philanthropy:
    In recognition of her
    Earhart supported contributions to aviation
    various charitable and women's rights,
    causes throughout her Earhart has received
    life. She raised funds numerous posthumous
    for the development of honors.
    aviation programs, She was inducted into
    particularly those the National Women's
    focused on women's Hall of Fame, the
    involvement in International Women's
    aviation. Hall of Fame, and the
    National Aviation Hall
    of Fame.
    On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and
    her navigator Fred Noonan vanished
    while attempting to circumnavigate
    the globe in her Lockheed Electra
    aircraft.

    The last known radio transmission


    from Earhart indicated they were
    running low on fuel and unable to
    locate their destination, Howland
    Island in the Pacific Ocean.

    Despite extensive search efforts at the


    time and subsequent investigations,
    no concrete evidence of their fate or
    the wreckage of the plane has been
    found.
    Thank You For Your Attention!

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