At the age of 7, Amelia Earhart built her roller coaster using fence rails and roller skates.
Aurelia Earhart and her younger sister Muriel often wore loose, flowery pants, which many women of the day disliked.
In the first World War, Aurelia left college and moved to Toronto, Canada to become a nurse. help and care for soldiers wounded in war.
After World War I Amelia Earhart returned to college and studied first auto engine repair, then medicine and later medical research.
On December 28, 1920, Aurelia Earhart took her first 10-minute airplane ride in California.
Amelia Earhart began taking flying lessons in January of 1921 and later that year earned her first airplane with money borrowed from her mother, father and sister as well as telephone services.
In 1924 Amelia Earhart’s parents divorced and Amelia sold the plane, bought a yellow sports car and drove her mother east to Massachusetts. .
Amelia Earhart’s mother, Amy, became the first woman to climb to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado, more than 14,000-feet in a high ascent, in the year 1890
After working as a nurse’s aid and a telephone operator, Amelia Earhart became a social worker in Boston. His job was to deceive immigrant children.
In 1928, just one year after Charles Lindbergh’s flight, Aurelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Bill Stultz flew the plane and Amelia kept the maps and charts. When she didn’t fly the plane herself, she later said that although it was “a great experience”, she felt like she was “in trouble”.
Overnight Amelia Earhart became an American hero. She has written a book and given many magazine and newspaper articles and lectures. Publisher George Putnam managed his career.
Aurelia Earhart became a merchandise queen, having her name used on billboards, luggage, stationery and clothing.
On February 7, 1931, Aurelia Earhart married George Putnam. In the past, Earhart turned down a proposal from another man, saying that she didn’t want to be a “domestic robot.”
In 1932 Aurelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
After her solo flight, President Herbert Hoover, who called her a “pawn,” presented Aurelia Earhart with a gold medal.
In 1935 Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California, and later that year she became the first person to fly from in the city of Mexico.
On June 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan began their flight around the world, the first leg from Florida to Puerto Rico. The flight took them to South America, Africa, India, Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea.
Aurelia Earhart and Noonan left New Guinea on July 2, 1937, headed to Howland Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean it is two miles long and one mile wide. They never came.
Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Pacific on July 3, just 21 days before her 40th birthday.
Recognizing the dangers of trying to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart said, “If I pop off, I’ll do what I’ve always wanted to do.”
Sources:
Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937
The Winged Legend by John Burke
Soaring Wings: A Biography of Amelia Earhart by George Palmer Putnam
