Amilia Earhart

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AMILIA EARHART

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Amelia Mary Earhart born July
24, 1897 – disappeared July 2,
1937, declared dead January 5,
1939) was an American
aviation pioneer.Earhart was
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solo across the Atlantic
Ocean.She set many other
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experiences, and was
instrumental in the formation
of The Ninety-Nines, an
organization for female pilots.
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 Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart
developed a passion for adventure at a
young age, steadily gaining ying
experience from her twenties. In 1928,

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Earhart became the rst female passenger
to cross the Atlantic by airplane
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(accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for
which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932,
piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made
a nonstop solo transatlantic ight,
becoming the rst woman to achieve such a
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feat. She received the United States
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Distinguished Flying Cross for this
accomplishment.In 1935, Earhart became a
visiting faculty member at Purdue
University as an advisor to aeronautical
engineering and a career counselor to
women students. She was also a member of
the National Woman's Party and an early
supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
During an attempt to make a
circumnavigational ight of the globe in
1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model

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10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred
Noonan disappeared over the central
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Earhart was the daughter of
Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart
(1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" (née
Otis; 1869–1962).[11] She was born
in Atchison, Kansas, in the home
of her maternal grandfather,
Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912),
who was a former federal judge,
the president of the Atchison
Savings Bank and a leading
citizen in the town. Amelia was
the second child of the marriage
after an infant was stillborn in
August 1896.She was of part
German descent. Alfred Otis had
not initially favored the marriage
and was not satis ed with
Edwin's progress as a lawyer.
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