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-Amelia earhart was born 1897 in Atchison Kansas.

-took her first flying lesson in 1921 when she was 23 yrs old.

-She bought her first plane shortly after and named it "The canary".

**Fun fact: Amelia saw her first plane at the Iowa State Fair when she was 10 yrs old and said, "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting."

What records did she set/break?

-She set the Woman's world altitude record of 14,000 feet in 1922

-She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928

-She was the first woman to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic in 1932 (this also made her the first person to fly a plane across the Atlantic twice)

-She was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross from the U.S. Armed Forces

-She was the first woman to fly nonstop, coast-to-coast across the United States in 1932

-She set the women's transcontinental speed record in 1933

-She was the first person to fly solo between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California
-She was the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles, California, to Mexico City, Mexico

-She was also the first person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey

-She set the speed record for east-to-west flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii

**FUN FACT: When she first flew across the Atlantic ocean it took 20 hours and she was just a passenger. Although crowds hailed her as “Lady Lindy,” Earhart insisted she had been “just a sack of potatoes.”

Planned route of Earhart’s last flight

**Fun fact** She did not like wearing aviator goggles while flying and would only wear them when necessary!

So Where is she now??

-Short Answer: No one knows!

-Long Answer: Amelia was attempting to fly around the world but on July 2, 1937 she was having weather and navigation issues and lost contact with the U.S. Coast guard. She was never heard from again and her plane was never found.

Amelia received honors even after her death. She was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1968 and the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1973.

Could this have been prevented?

-There were errors with communication, equiptment, and navigation that could have prevented her crash.

Her disappearance is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century!

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