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    On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first person since Charles Lindbergh to fly the Atlantic solo, doing it in record time and becoming the first person to have crossed the Atlantic by air twice. The hundreds of telegrams, tributes, and letters that poured in after the 1932 solo flight testify that women in the United States, indeed throughout the world, took Amelia Earhart’s individual triumph as a triumph for womanhood.

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    On May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first person since Charles Lindbergh to fly the Atlantic solo, doing it in record time and becoming the first person to have crossed the Atlantic by air twice. The hundreds of telegrams, tributes, and letters that poured in after the 1932 solo flight testify that women in the United States, indeed throughout the world, took Amelia Earhart’s individual triumph as a triumph for womanhood.

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    For food I carried a very

    simple rationtomato
    juice. I think that serves
    as food and drink, and I
    used just a few swallows
    of it. The fact is, one
    doesn't think much about
    food on such a journey.
    Two hours after I left,
    the moon came up over
    a eld of little, scattered,
    woolly clouds. At 11:00, an
    enormous dark cloud loomed
    before me, stretching as
    far as I could see. Behind it
    I watched the moon nally
    disappear. It was entirely too
    high for me to climb over.
    I plunged at 11:30 into
    the storm cloud and met
    the roughest air I have ever
    encountered while ying
    completely blind. By blind I
    mean I could not see out of
    my cockpit at all. For about
    an hour I could not keep my
    course absolutely.

    I have been asked many
    times whether I was sleepy,
    and I can say, No, indeed
    emphatically. Possibly, if the
    night had been a beautiful,
    clear one, I might have got
    somewhat drowsy. Flying
    in the kind of weather I
    met, however, made even
    winking an eye impossible.
    Probably more exciting
    than actually sighting land
    was seeing a small shing
    vessel about 100 miles off
    the coast... I circled and
    received an answering
    signal. It was the rst
    human contact since
    Newfoundland.
    I came to a fair-sized
    city, but found no port.
    Consequently I selected
    the best pasture I could
    nd and settled down in it.
    I pulled up at the front door
    of a farmhouse and asked
    the surprised farmer for a
    drink of wateran unusual
    request in Ireland, I found!

    North Atlantic
    Ireland Newfoundland
    7:12 PM (LT) HOUR 2 HOUR 3 HOUR 4 HOUR 5 HOUR 6 HOUR 7 HOUR 8 HOUR 9 HOUR 10 HOUR 11 HOUR 12 HOUR 13 HOUR 14 1.46PM (LT)
    LEARN MORE ABOUT AMERICAN INNOVATORS LIKE EARHART IN THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY VISIT www.anb.com
    In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the rst woman to y solo
    across the Atlantic. This is the story of her 14 hour journey.
    READ EARHARTS FULL BIOGRAPHY ON www.anb.org
    Quotes below drawn fromThe Whole Story published by National Geographic (September 1932)

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