AMELIA EARHART

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AMELIA EARHART
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EARLY LIFE

• Amelia Mary Earhart was born on the 24th of July,
  1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her father was Samuel
  Edwin Stanton Earhart and her mother was Amelia
  Otis Earhart. She had a younger sister Grace
  Muriel.Amelias childhood can be described as
  quite unconventional for that time, as her mother
  did not want her children to become like the
  typical girls of that time. She gave her
  daughters a considerable amount of freedom.

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• Amelia was at best a tomboy and she would often
  set off on adventures along with her sister. Her
  father worked as a claims officer for the Rock
  Island Railroad. Amelia was 11 years old when her
  father got transferred to Des Moines, Iowa.
  However, Amelia, her mother and her sister
  remained in Atchison with her grandparents. They
  finally moved to Iowa in 1909.

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• However, Amelias father was an alcoholic which
  caused him to retire in 1914 in order to
  rehabilitate. He never got his old job back even
  though he tried to take treatment for his
  alcoholism. At this time, Amelias grandmother
  died and left a considerable amount of money in
  trust for her daughter.

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• IN 1915, Amelias father found a job as a clerk
  at the Great Northern Railway in St. Paul,
  Minnesota.World War I had begun and in 1917,
  Amelia began working as a nurse in the Spadina
  Military Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. She worked
  there till 1918. While working there, she once
  attended a flying exhibition. When the plane
  swept by her side, she stood her ground. And she
  was hooked on to flying.

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• In late 1920, she visited an airfield with her
  father. She rode on a plane for the first time
  and discovered that she would love to fly a
  plane. She worked as a truck driver and at a
  local telephone company to earn the 1000 for her
  flying lessons from Anita Neta Snook.Six
  months later, she bought a second hand Kinner
  Airster biplane. In 1922 she flew the plane to an
  altitude of 14,000 feet setting a world record
  for women pilots. She became the 16th woman to
  earn her Pilots License in May 1923.

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AMELIA EARHARTS FLYING CAREER

• In late 1920, she visited an airfield with her
  father. She rode on a plane for the first time
  and discovered that she would love to fly a
  plane. She worked as a truck driver and at a
  local telephone company to earn the 1000 for her
  flying lessons from Anita Neta Snook.Six
  months later, she bought a second hand Kinner
  Airster biplane. In 1922 she flew the plane to an
  altitude of 14,000 feet setting a world record
  for women pilots. She became the 16th woman to
  earn her Pilots License in May 1923.By 1927,
  Amelia had accumulated over 500 hours of flying,
  her skills and professionalism growing steadily

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• The world's most famous female aviator
  disappeared in 1937, as she attempted to become
  the first woman to fly around the world. With her
  navigator, Fred Noonan, her Lockheed Electra was
  last heard from about 100 miles from the tiny
  Pacific atoll, Howland Island, on July 2, 1937.
  President Roosevelt authorized an immediate
  search no trace was ever found. Over the years,
  the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has spawned
  almost as many conspiracy theories as the
  Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Kennedy
  Assasination.
• She achieved a number of aviation records
• the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, in
  1928
• the second person to fly solo across the
  Atlantic, in 1932
• the first person to solo from Hawaii to
  California, in 1935
• Guided by her publicist and husband, George
  Putnam, she made headlines in the era when
  aviation gripped the public's imagination.
• Youth
• Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in
  Kansas, the daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart. At
  the age of three, she was sent to live with her
  grandmother (her namesake), mainly because the
  old woman needed company and a distraction from
  the deaths of her mother, her son, and her
  daughter-in-law, as well as the poor mental
  condition of her husband Alfred. The grandparents
  (or grandmother) raised Amelia during her early
  childhood. She liked their home in Atchison,
  Kansas, especially her large bedroom with views
  of the nearby river, now a museum open to the
  public. She enjoyed her life with her
  grandparents learning to read at five, and
  secure in a place where it seemed that almost
  everyone was family. But her grandmother was
  timid, and a worrier, and did not approve of
  Amelia's tomboy tendencies, so Amelia kept her
  pony-riding, tree-climbing, snow-sledding, and
  hunting activities to herself. Her parents were
  only 50 miles away, and she summered with them,
  so she remained close to them during these years.

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