Amelia Earhart
They lived in Atchison, in Kansas, USA, on July 24th 1897. Their family moved to Iowa
because her father took a new job there. She was the first woman to fly alone across the
Atlantic Ocean. She saw an aircraft for the first time with her father.
By 1919, Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at
Columbia University. She was working as a nurse's aide at a military hospital in the last
year of the First World War, and she had fallen in love with flying while visiting local air
shows and military airfields.
She felt that women do not have as much strength as men. But they have more endurance,"
she said - something she had proved six months before as the first woman to fly solo across
the Atlantic Ocean. And any tendency to panic was a matter of nurture, not nature.
"Women have been trained and educated to timidity, fear and dependency; to scream at a
mouse. Men have been trained in the opposite. She had a serious health problem that her
sinus became infected. As a result, she had bad headaches on her head.
In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where
Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that would forever
change Earhart's life. After that 10-minute flight (which cost her father $10), she
immediately determined to learn to fly.
Earhart had her first lesson on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach. Her
teacher was Anita "Neta" Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4
"Canuck" for training. On October 22, 1922, Earhart flew the Airster to an altitude of
14,000 feet (4,300 m), setting a world record for female pilots.
On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman in the United States to be issued a
pilot's license (#6017) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).– why she
stopped flying. In 1924, her headaches became very bad again. They were so bad that she
sold her aircraft and bought her car.
She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo. Earhart was a successful and heavily
promoted writer who served as aviation editor for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928 to
1930. She wrote magazine articles, newspaper columns, and essays, and published two
books based upon her experiences as a flyer during her lifetime. The United Press was more
grandiloquent; to them, Earhart was the reigning "Queen of the Air".
Immediately after her return to the United States, she undertook an exhausting lecture
tour in 1928 and 1929. Earhart was the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license. She had
several notable flights, including becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
in 1928, as well as the first person to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific. She would then
have tried to reach the airfield at Rabaul, New Britain (northeast of mainland Papua New
Guinea), approximately 2,200 miles (3,500 km) from Howland.
Some of Earhart's character traits include the following: adventurous, ambitious, curious,
and determined (This is by no means a full list of all of Earhart's character traits.). It is
important to not only understand the traits, but also to understand the meaning of each and
provide examples from Earhart's life.
Amelia was courageous due to her love of flying, love of the world, and her trait of
exploring new things. She was the first woman to be offered the opportunity to fly a plane
over the Atlantic and she accepted, she didn't back down.
She went out into public and demanded that women could fly; she didn't stay at home,
and she did something she wanted to do. Amelia then showed she wasn't afraid to compete
against a man, she showed the world she was just as good as men and even better at flying.
Amelia knew no woman had ever flown a plane and she showed people she could and she
wasn't afraid.
Last but not least Amelia stood up for women's rights. She did something she wanted to
do with her life, which was to make women just as important as men. She believed that
women are equal to men and that meant they are the same at flying.
After her speech about the equality of men and women, she flew over the Atlantic Ocean.
It wasn't a man who flew over the Atlantic; it was a woman to be the first to fly over an
ocean. Many men doubted she could fly but she showed everybody she could.