3. Amelia Mary Earhart was born in July 24
1897 Atchison, Kansas
Amelia & her sister Pidge were very close as
they loved to play together
As a young girl she loved the outdoors she
would climb trees & loads more, but she was
also fond of reading
Amelia Earhart
6. marriage
For a while Earhart was engaged
to Samuel Chapman, a
chemical engineer, breaking off
her engagement on November
23, 1928. After her
engagement Earhart and
Putnam had spent a great deal
of time together George P.
Putnam, who was known as GP,
was divorced in 1929 and
proposed Earhart six times
before she finally agreed.
7. Plan
• Early in 1936, Earhart started to plan a
round-the-world flight. On St. Patrick's
Day, March 17, 1937, Earhart and her
crew flew the first leg from Oakland,
California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The
flight resumed three days later from Luke
Field with Earhart, Noonan and Manning
and during the takeoff run, Earhart made
a mistake. This time flying west to east,
the second attempt began with an
unpublicized flight from Oakland to
Miami, Florida and after arriving there
Earhart publicly announced her plans to
circumnavigate the globe
8. /
On July 2, 1937 (midnight
GMT) Earhart and Noonan
took off from Lae in the
heavily loaded Electra. Their
intended destination was
Howland Island Through a
series of misunderstandings
or errors the final approach
to Howland Island using
radio navigation was not
successful.
Fred Noonan was Earhart's only crew member for
the second flight. They departed Miami on June 1
and after numerous stops in South America, Africa,
the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, arrived
at Lae, New Guinea on June 29, 1937. At this stage
about 35,000 km of the journey had been
completed. The remaining 11,000 km would all be
over the Pacific.
9. lost
on July 2, 1937 (aged 39) Amelia Earhart
disappeared also along with fred Noonan
Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island
At 7:42 am Earhart radioed "We must be on you,
but cannot see you—but gas is running low. Have
been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying
at 1,000 feet."