Who Is Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas. Earhart was an American famous pilot. She was also the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic alone. Earhart had to undergo a lot of challenges such as a transatlantic solo flight, other flights, and the challenge of her last flight. After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, his interest grew for having a woman fly across the Atlantic. Lindbergh had this interest because he was not sure is a woman could do it. Later, Earhart got a phone call from Captain Hilton H. Railey, a pilot asking her if she wanted to fly over the Atlantic Ocean. She told Chaptin Hilton H. Railey she would be honored to and went to New York to be interviewed. Earhart was interview because she was the first woman got asked to …show more content…
Although she wouldn’t be the first person to circumnavigate the earth, she decided she would be the first to do it around the equator. She pulled together the best crew of three men that she could find: Captain Harry Manning the navigator; Fred Noonan was the second navigator, and Paul Mantz, would be Amelia Earhart’s technical advisor on this trip around the world.
The original plan for Amelia Earhart’s adventure was to take off from Oakland, California, and fly west to Hawaii. From there, the four of them would fly across the Pacific Ocean to Australia. Then they would cross India, on to Africa, then to Florida, and back to California.
On March 17, 1937, they took off from Oakland on the first leg. They faced some complications while flying across the Pacific, and had to land in Hawaii for some repairs. After three days in Hawaii, they began to takeoff, from Hawaii to Australia. Amelia Earhart and her team then lost control of the aircraft, the plane crashed on the runway. Although no one was severely hurt, the plane was extremely damaged and had to be shipped back to California for large-scale