AMELIA EARHART

Amelia Mary Earhart was born in July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas

(America). She was an American aviator, one of the first women to fly

a plane long distances.

Amelia was the first woman to graduate from the Curtiss School of

Aviation. She was the first woman to fly a plane by herself across

the Atlantic Ocean in May 1932. On August 1932, she flew from Los

Angeles, California, to Newark, New Jersey, in a record of 19 hours, 5

minutes, so she also became the first woman to fly solo coast-to-

coast. In January 1935, Earhart became the first woman to make a

solo long-distance flight over the Pacific Ocean, flying

from Honolulu, Hawaii, to San Francisco, California. She was also a

writer of books and articles about aviation.

She disappeared in a storm while she was flying to Howland Island, in

the Pacific Ocean on July 1, 1937. She was 39 years old.