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Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
- Amelia Mary Earhart, July 24, 1897, Atchison, Kansas, U.S.
- Death in absentia, January 5, 1939
- Many early aviation records, including first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
- Earhart’s Aviation Records
- The Ninety-Nines
- 1937 Flight Around The World
- What Happened to Amelia Earhart?
- Crash and Sink Theory
- Gardner Island Hypothesis
- Other Theories About Earhart’s Disappearance
- Sources
Earhart set a number of aviation recordsin her short career. Her first record came in 1922 when she became the first woman to fly solo above 14,000 feet. In 1932, Earhart became the first woman (and second person after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She left Newfoundland, Canada, on May 20 in a red Lockheed Vega 5B and ar...
Earhart consistently worked to promote opportunities for women in aviation. In 1929, after placing third in the All-Women’s Air Derby—the first transcontinental air race for women—Earhart helped to form the Ninety-Nines, an international organization for the advancement of female pilots. She became the first president of the organization of license...
On June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart took off from Oakland, California, on an eastbound flight around the world. It was her second attempt to become the first pilot ever to circumnavigate the globe. She flew a twin-engine Lockheed 10E Electra and was accompanied on the flight by navigator Fred Noonan. They flew to Miami, then down to South America, acro...
Earhart and Noonan departed Lae for tiny Howland Island—their next refueling stop—on July 2. It was the last time Earhart was seen alive. She and Noonan lost radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, anchored off the coast of Howland Island, and disappeared en route. President Franklin D. Rooseveltauthorized a massive two-week search f...
According to the crash and sink theory, Earhart’s plane ran out of gas while she searched for Howland Island, and she crashed into the open ocean somewhere in the vicinity of the island. Several expeditions over the past 15 years have attempted to locate the plane’s wreckage on the seafloor near Howland. High-tech sonar and deep-sea robots have fai...
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) postulates that Earhart and Noonan veered off-course from Howland Island and landed instead some 350 miles to the Southwest on Gardner Island, now called Nikumaroro, in the Republic of Kiribati. The island was uninhabited at the time. A week after Earhart’s disappearance, Navy planes f...
There are numerous conspiracy theories about Earhart’s disappearance. One theory posits that Earhart and Noonan were captured and executed by the Japanese. Another theory claims that the pair served as spies for the Roosevelt administration and assumed new identities upon returning to the United States. READ MORE: Tantalizing Theories About the Ear...
The Life of Amelia Earhart: Purdue Libraries. Amelia Earhart: Missing for 80 Years But Not Forgotten: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Model, Static, Lockheed Electra, Amelia Earhart: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Exclusive: Bone-Sniffing Dogs to Hunt for Amelia Earhart’s Remains: National Geographic. Where Is Amelia Earhart?...
4 de jun. de 2010 · A court order declared Earhart legally dead in January 1939, 18 months after she disappeared. From the beginning, however, debate has raged over what actually happened on July 2, 1937 and...
4 de ene. de 2019 · Saturday marks 80 years since a court order declared her legally dead on Jan. 5, 1939. The news only earned one brief line in the pages of TIME. After all, by that point she had been missing for...
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18 de abr. de 2024 · Amelia Earhart, American aviator who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Her disappearance during a flight around the world in 1937 became an enduring mystery, fueling much speculation. Learn about her life, career, and disappearance in this article.
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30 de ene. de 2024 · FULL NAME: Amelia Earhart BORN: July 24, 1897 DIED: January 5, 1939 (legal declaration of death) BIRTHPLACE: Atchison, Kansas SPOUSE: George Putnam (1931-1939) ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo. Early...
1 de jul. de 2019 · July 01, 2019. • 9 min read. On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart flew toward Howland Island, one of the last stops on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Nearing the tiny Pacific island, she ...
