Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart’s license. Image from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
Amelia Earhart worked as a nurse's aide and social worker during WWI in Toronto, Canada. In 1932, she was the 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She was a president of the Ninety Nines. She placed 3rd in the First Women's Air Derby in 1929 and fought for women to participate commercial aviation. She was a strong financial supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and promoted women forming leadership roles in the community.
Earhart arrival after solo transatlantic flight, Culmore, Ireland, 1932. Image from: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
1940 Amelia Earhart. Image from: National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution (donated by her mother)
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Mail from Earhart Transatlantic non-stop solo flight. Image from: Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum
"My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes."-Amelia Earhart
Adventure in the air and in the sea
July 25, 1929, Amelia Earhart is helped out of her deep sea diving suit after exploring the bottom of the sea off Block Island, Rhode Island. Image from: Records of the U.S. Information Agency National Archives Identifier: 6708602
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November of 1936, Amelia Earhart wrote a letter to FDR explaining her upcoming around the world flight and asking for assistance from the Navy. Documents of Amelia Earhart. FDR Library
Earhart Lost At Sea. Image from: THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 3, 1937
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." -Amelia Earhart
Formerly known as Gardner Island, Nikumaroro, part of the Phoenix Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, may in fact be the final resting place of the aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.- Image from Atlas Obscura.
"Last voice transmission from Amelia giving positioning data: "KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you but cannot see you...gas is running low..
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards...I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Quote From Amelia Earhart.."Last Flight"
"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards...I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others." - Quote From Amelia Earhart.."Last Flight"
AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT
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