AMELIE

EARHART
THE GREATEST AND
MOST AMBITIOUS
WOMEN PILOT THE
WORLD EVER SEEN

Presented by- KRITTIKA BARDHAN ROY

ROLL NO- 9
CLASS- IX B
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Objective

The objective of this

powerpoint presentation is
to show the
accomplishments and life of
one of the greatest female
pilots to ever live..........

Amelia Earhart
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The Early Days

Born July 24th , 1897 in

Atchison, Kansas, United
states.
She had no interest in
flying while a child.
When Amelia was 10
years old, she saw her
first plane It was a
thing of rusty wire and
wood and looked not at
all interesting.
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The Thrill Of Flying

Then she took her
first
flight...................
By the time I
had got two or
three hundred feet
off the ground she
said I knew I had
to fly
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Achievements

October 22, 1922- Broke womens

altitude record when she rose to 14,000
feet.

Fall 1929- Elected as an official for

National Aeronautic Association.

May 20-2, 1932- First women to fly solo

across the Atlantic.
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More Achievements

August 24-25, 1932- First women to fly

solo nonstop coast to coast, set womens
nonstop transcontinental speed record.

April 19-20, 1935- First person to fly solo

from Los Angeles to Mexico city.

June 1, 1937- Began flight around the

world June.
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Amelias
achievements span
throughout her
career..................

Numerous of her
records stood for
many
years................

Fun Facts

Earhart was called Lady Lindy

because her features resembles that of
Charles Lindbergh.

More Facts..............
The United States government spent $ 4
million looking for Earhart, which made it
the most costly and intensive air and sea
search in history at that time.

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The Unknown
She left California on May
21, 1937
I have a feeling that 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 shunt flying
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The Crash

It has been determined that the plane

went down some 35-100 miles off the
coast of Howland Island.

A life raft was stowed on board but no

trace has ever been found the raft.

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Search And Rescue

President
Roosevelt
authorized a search
of 9 naval ships
and 66 aircrafts at
an estimated rate
of $ 4 million. On
July 18 the search
was abandoned by
ships in the
Howland area.
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Crash Site

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Legacy
Amelia Earhart was a widely known international
celebrity during her lifeline. Her shyly charismatic
appeal, independence, persistence, coolness under
pressure, courage and goal-oriented career along with
the circumstances of her disappearance at a young
age have driven her lasting fame in popular culture.
Hundreds of articles and scores of books have been
written about her life which is often cried as a
motivational tale especially for girls. Earhart is
generally regarded as a feminist icon.
Earharts accomplishments is aviation inspired a
generation of female avaitors, including more than
1000 women pilots of the women airforce service
pilots (WASP) who ferried military aircraft, towed
gliders, flew target practiceaircraft and served as
transport pilots during World War 2..............

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Legacy continued.........
The home where Earhart was born is now the Amelia
Earhart Birthplace M useum and is maintained by the
Ninety-Nines, an international group of female pilots
of whom Amelia was the first elected president.
A small section of Earharts Lochheed Electra starboard
engine nacelle recovered in the aftermath of the
Hawaii crash has been confirmed as authentic and is
now regarded as a control piece that will help to
authenticate possible future discoveries.
Many movies have been on her including the award
winning Amelia where she is potrayed by actress
Hilary Swank, She was also a successful author.

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Books by Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a successful and heavily
promoted writers who served as aviation
editor for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928
to 1930. She wrote magazine, articles,
newspapers columns , essays and published
two books based upon her experiences as a
flyer during her lifeline.........

20 hours, 40 minutes (1928) was a journal of

her experiences as the first women passenger
on a trans-atlantic flight.
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The fun of it (1932) was a memoir of her

flying experience and an essay on women
in aviation.

Lat Flight (1937) featured the periodic

journal entries she sent back to the
United States during her world first
attempt, published in newspapers in the
weeks prior to her final departure from
New Guinea. Compiled by her husband
GP Putnam after she disappeared over
the Pacific, many historians consider this
book to be only partially Earharts original
work................
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