Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897 and showed an early passion for adventure and the outdoors. After her first plane ride at age 24, she was determined to learn to fly. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937, Earhart embarked on a quest to circumnavigate the globe but disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on her final leg. Despite numerous searches, her fate remains a mystery that has fueled many rumors and theories over the decades.

2. Amelia Earhart
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

3. Amelias education
Amelia was educated
at home but when she
turned 12 she went to
a public school
Amelia graduated
from Hyde Park High
School in 1916

4. Flying
On December 28, 1920, Earhart and
her father visited an airfield
where Frank Hawks brought her
for a spin in his small light
aircraft that would forever
change Earhart's"By the time I had got two or
life.
three hundred feet off the
ground," she said, "I knew I had
to fly." After that she
immediately became
determined to learn to fly

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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
On July 2, 1937 (midnight 11,000 km would all be over the Pacific.
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.

8. 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."

9. rumours
• In November 2006, the
National Geographic
Channel aired episode
two of the Undiscovered
History series about a
claim that Earhart
survived the world
flight, moved to New
Jersey, changed her
name, remarried and

10. Amelia
earhart