3. IntroductIo
n
The person that I chose for my
project is Amelia Earhart because
she inspired women to follow their
heart and to not count on men to
help them and to do all of the work.
She also inspired them to never
give up. Amelia was turned down
many times just because she was a
girl .
4. Background
InformatIon
Full Name: Amelia Mary Earhart
Spouse: George P. Putnam
Birth Place: Atchinson, Kansas
Born: July 24, 1897
Sibling: Grace Muriel Earhart
Parents: Father- Samuel Edwin
Stanton Earhart
Mother- Amelia Otis Earhart
College: Columbia University
5. the thrIll of flyIng
Then she took her first flight…"By the
time I had got two or three hundred feet
off the ground," she said, "I knew I had
to fly."
6. Important
accomplIshments
When Amelia was little she and a group of girls
got together and built a mini roller coaster in
Amelia’s backyard. The first roller coaster was
a failure but Amelia did not give up she kept on
trying and eventually she made a miniature
roller coaster.
7. more accomplIshments
Amelia was called “One of the best women pilots
in the United States” by the Boston Globe.
Amelia was the 16th woman to be issued a pilots
license.
October 22, 1922 - Broke women's
altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet
Fall 1929 - Elected as an official for
National Aeronautic Association
May 20-21, 1932 - First woman to
fly solo across the Atlantic
8. more accomplIshments
cont…
Amelia became the Vice President of
the Aeronautical Society’s Boston
Chapter. Finally, Amelia most popular
flight, Amelia was trying to go all the
world. That attempt was baffled when
her plane was somehow lost and never
found.
9. more accomplIshments cont…
August 24-25, 1932 - First woman to
fly solo nonstop coast to coast; set
women's nonstop transcontinental speed
record
April l9 - 20, 1935 - First person to fly
solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City
June 1, 1937 - Began flight around
the world June 1937
12. Fun Facts…
Earhart was called "Lady Lindy"
because her features resembled that of
Charles Lindbergh.
13. More Facts…
The United States government spent
$4 million looking for Earhart,which
made it the most costly and intensive air
and sea search in history at that time.
14. tHe unknown
She left California on May 21,1937
"I have a feeling that there is just
about one more good flight left in
my system and I hope this trip is it.
Anyway when I have finished this
job, I mean to give up long-
distance "stunt" flying."
15. tHe crasH
It has been determined that the
plane went down some 35-100 miles
off the coast of Howland Island.
A life raft was stowed on board
but no trace has ever been found the
raft.
17. LegaCy
Amelia Earhart was a widely known international
celebrity during her lifetime. Her shyly charismatic
appeal, independence, persistence, coolness under
pressure, courage and goal-oriented career along with
the circumstances of her disappearance at a young age
have driven her lasting fame in popular culture.
Hundreds of articles and scores of books have been
written about her life which is often cited as a
motivational tale, especially for girls. Earhart is
generally regarded as a feminist icon.[163]
Earhart's accomplishments in aviation inspired a
generation of female aviators, including the more than
1,000 women pilots of the
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) who ferried
military aircraft, towed gliders, flew target practice
aircraft, and served as transport pilots during World War
18. LegaCy Continued…
The home where Earhart was born is now the Amelia
Earhart Birthplace Museum and is maintained by the
Ninety-Nines, an international group of female pilots of
whom Amelia was the first elected president.
A small section of Earhart's Lockheed Electra starboard
engine nacelle recovered in the aftermath of the Hawaii
crash has been confirmed as authentic and is now
regarded as a control piece that will help to authenticate
possible future discoveries.
Many movies have been made on her including the
award winning Amelia where she is portrayed
by actress Hilary Swank
She was also a successful author
19. Books By earhart
Amelia Earhart was a successful and heavily promoted
writer who served as aviation editor
for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928 to 1930. She wrote
magazine articles, newspaper columns, essays and published
two books based upon her experiences as a flyer during her
lifetime:
20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928) was a journal of her experiences as
the first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight.
The Fun of It (1932) was a memoir of her flying
experiences and an essay on women in aviation.
Last Flight (1937) featured the periodic journal entries she
sent back to the United States during her world flight
attempt, published in newspapers in the weeks prior to her
final departure from New Guinea. Compiled by her husband
GP Putnam after she disappeared over the Pacific, many
historians consider this book to be only partially Earhart's
original work.
