Amelia Earhart Biography and Works.

Born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, The United States Amelia enjoyed a childhood which was a blend of luxuries and comfort as well as poverty and struggle.

Soon after her birth, she was sent to her grandparents’ house, where she enjoyed all the comforts of life. Her father, Edwin Stanton Earhart did not earn enough to give Amelia and her sister, Muriel the same comforts.

Amelia acquired training as a nurse in 1917 and worked at a military hospital till 1918.

At the age of ten, Amelia saw plane for the first time and it was in around 1920 that she attended an aerial meet at Daugherty Field in Long Beach and developed an interest in flying. Her first tenminute flight as a passenger over Los Angeles made her realize that she had to fly.

Soon she purchased her own yellow Kinner Airster plane, which she called ‘The Canary’. She worked hard to acquire the flying skills. She broke the women’s altitude record in 1922.

She was chosen by ‘George Putnam’, the famous publicist, whom Amelia later married, to become the first woman to fly across the Altantic.

Her around-the-world flight on June 1, 1937 with her navigator, Fred Noonan from Miami, Florida proved to be fatal for her. After having flown 22,000 miles and 7,000 miles more to go, her flight disappeared.

The then President Roosevelt ordered a search that cost around $4 million, but her flight could not be traced ever.

Trivia

The letters she used to send to her husband on her journey was made into a book, The Last Flight’.

Quote

“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”