Biography of Amelia Earhart

Ali in the heart and mind

24 July 1897
July 2, 1937
Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas and goes into history as the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo in 1932. Remembered today as American heroine and as one of the most able and most celebrated Aviators in the world, is an example of courage and sense of adventure all-female. Householder spent his youth moving between Kansas and Iowa, and in 19 years he attended Ogontz School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leaving two years later to reach his sister Muriel in Canada. Here he attended a first aid course at the Red Cross by list at the Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto. The purpose is to provide relief to the wounded soldiers during the first world war.
Amelia Earhart will deepen his studies at Columbia University in New York, attending a school of nursing. However, at the age of 10 years and after a tour in the skies of Los Angeles that Amelia Earhart meets the passion of his life: soar in the clear immensity of the time. Learn to fly several years later, taking aviation as a hobby, often accepting all kinds of work to support themselves to expensive lessons. In 1922 finally buys his first airplane with the financial support of the sister Muriel and her mother Amy Otis Earhart. In 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, Amelia was chosen by George Palmer Putnam, her future husband, to be the first woman to take the trans-Pacific flight.
Amelia Earhart, flanked by the mechanic Lou Gordon and by pilot Wilmer Stults, manages successfully and was cheered and honored worldwide for his business. About his adventure writes a book entitled "20 Hours-40 Minutes", Putnam (her future husband also provides Publisher) promptly publish, identifying her as a great opportunity to bring success to his publisher delivering a real bestseller. George, that Amelia marry in 1931, has already published numerous writings of another pilot remembered for his exploits: Charles Lindbergh. The partnership between husband and wife is fruitful in business, because George himself who arranges the flights of his wife and even public appearances: Amelia Earhart becomes a real star. The woman was able to continue his career in aviation taking her husband's surname and, on the success, it even created a line of luggage for air travel and a sportswear.
George will also release two others written by his wife; "The fun of it" and "Last flight". After a record series of flight in 1932 that Amelia Earhart makes the enterprise more daring in his career: the solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (Lindbergh did the same in 1927). The courage and audacity of Amelia Earhart, which apply to activities which then were open primarily to men, are combined with grace and gusto typically feminine. The woman becomes in fact fashion designer working on a particular garment leader: put flight to Florida native women.
Will draw in 1932 (the same year as flight), the Ninety-Nines, a particular article of clothing consisting of soft trousers, with zippers and large pockets. Vogue Magazine gives ample space with a two-page report with great photographs. His commitment "to the woman who plays an active life" is not limited to clothing but is addressed in an effort to pave the way for aviation to women. Amelia Earhart offers other bits and bobs of adventure with flights that does ne1 1935: from Honolulu to Oakland, California between the 11 and 12 January, from Los Angeles to Mexico City on April 19 and 20, finally from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey.
At this point she is the first woman in the world to have made solo flights in the Pacific, but also the first to be flown solo both the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. His greatest dream is to travel around the world by airplane. Starts the enterprise, but reached about two tezri of the trip, more than 22,000 miles, Amelia mysteriously disappears, getting lost along with the co-pilot Frederick Noonan never to return. It's on 2 July 1937. One of the hypothesis was that the woman was a spy fall at that time imprisoned by the Japanese. In 2009 was made a biopic on her life entitled "Amelia," starring Richard Gere and Hilary Swank as the Aviator.
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