Amelia Earhart a Woman of Bravery In the 1930s, women were looked down upon as useless unless they were in the household or in a super market, but Amelia Earhart changed that. Amelia gathered her courage and found that she was born to fly; she reached for the stars in her bright yellow plane and became one herself. Amelia Earhart was a role model for all women of the 1930s; she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first to attempt an across-the-world flight, though she never made it. For women in the 1930s Amelia Earhart was a very brave and courageous woman. Not many women in that time would ever dream about buying their own plane or getting their own license to fly one, but Amelia did. Amelia Earhart was one of
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She thought she was going alone but instead Wilmer “Bill” Stultz tagged along as the pilot and Louis E. “Slim” Gordon T as the copilot ("The Official Website of Amelia Earhart"). Amelia and her team began their flight at Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 plane named “Friendship”, on June 17, 1928, and arrived at their end point, Burry Port, Wales, approximately 21 hours later. A few years later Amelia decided to do it all again, but this time, solo. She soloed the Atlantic in 1932, another first for women, she proved to the world and, more important, to herself that 1928 had not been a fluke ("Amelia Earhart." History.com.). Though, when she was near the finish line she was plagued by strong winds, icy conditions, and mechanical problems forcing her to land in a pasture near Londonderry, Ireland. Even though Amelia was unable to complete her flight she was able to change how people looked at …show more content…
Their flight lasted only one month before things started to go south. On July 2, 1937, during the hardest leg, a 2,556-mile segment from New Guinea to a tiny speck in the mid-Pacific called Howland Island, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared ("Amelia Earhart." History.com.). The “picket ship”, also known as ITASCA, was set up with the job to transmit air navigation to Amelia. They sent transitions to the plane, only to get back a choppy response. When ITASCA attempted to connect with Amelia again they heard her and Fred Noonan talking as if they couldn’t hear the transmission. ITASCA took a step back for a moment to let the plane attempt to communicate, sure enough they did. Strangely, ITASCA was unable to get back to Amelia. After attempting to connect with them again for a lengthy time they quickly began to search the waters, assuming the plane had run out of fuel and had crashed into the sea. Though many people believe this to be untrue, there are lots of theories. One of the most popular is that Amelia and Fred were actually spies for Hawaii or another state to monitor Japanese transmissions. Another one is that she and her navigator were at the mercy of The Bermuda Triangle, also known as The Devil’s Triangle (Roberts). The mystery has still yet to be solved, and with our advancing technology we might just one day
She thought she was going alone but instead Wilmer “Bill” Stultz tagged along as the pilot and Louis E. “Slim” Gordon T as the copilot ("The Official Website of Amelia Earhart"). Amelia and her team began their flight at Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 plane named “Friendship”, on June 17, 1928, and arrived at their end point, Burry Port, Wales, approximately 21 hours later. A few years later Amelia decided to do it all again, but this time, solo. She soloed the Atlantic in 1932, another first for women, she proved to the world and, more important, to herself that 1928 had not been a fluke ("Amelia Earhart." History.com.). Though, when she was near the finish line she was plagued by strong winds, icy conditions, and mechanical problems forcing her to land in a pasture near Londonderry, Ireland. Even though Amelia was unable to complete her flight she was able to change how people looked at …show more content…
Their flight lasted only one month before things started to go south. On July 2, 1937, during the hardest leg, a 2,556-mile segment from New Guinea to a tiny speck in the mid-Pacific called Howland Island, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared ("Amelia Earhart." History.com.). The “picket ship”, also known as ITASCA, was set up with the job to transmit air navigation to Amelia. They sent transitions to the plane, only to get back a choppy response. When ITASCA attempted to connect with Amelia again they heard her and Fred Noonan talking as if they couldn’t hear the transmission. ITASCA took a step back for a moment to let the plane attempt to communicate, sure enough they did. Strangely, ITASCA was unable to get back to Amelia. After attempting to connect with them again for a lengthy time they quickly began to search the waters, assuming the plane had run out of fuel and had crashed into the sea. Though many people believe this to be untrue, there are lots of theories. One of the most popular is that Amelia and Fred were actually spies for Hawaii or another state to monitor Japanese transmissions. Another one is that she and her navigator were at the mercy of The Bermuda Triangle, also known as The Devil’s Triangle (Roberts). The mystery has still yet to be solved, and with our advancing technology we might just one day