Amelia Earhart
The first time Earhart had ever seen an airplane she was not impressed. A couple years later she was at a stunt-flying exhibition where she realized how amazing flying really was. The first time she got in a plane she said "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly." Earhart bought her first plane in 1921 and named it "Canary" and set the first woman's record of flying to the altitude of 14,000 ft. In 1928 she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, she was a co-pilot of Wilmer Stutz (3 other women had attempted to fly the Atlantic before but had been killed). On May 20, 1932 she started her flight to become the first woman and second solo pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean ever, she was forced to land in Ireland after experiencing rough flying conditions. After her flight she was presented with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society, President Herbert Hoover presented this to her; she was also given the Distinguished Flying cross from Congress, she was the first woman to receive this. Earhart later said that this difficult task showed that women and men were equal in "jobs requiring intelligence, coordination, speed, coolness and willpower." In her final attempt to make history, she set off with her navigator, Fred Noonan, to fly around the world. After stopping in New Guinea they were taking off to fly off to Howland Islands (where American ships were stationed to help Earhart), but after flying through a rough patch in the sky Earhart and Noonan lost communication with the ships and disappeared. A rescue effort was in full force, the government spent about $4 million dollars on the search, and searched a 250,000 square mile radius of the ocean. The rescue was called off, and to this day both Earhart and Noonan have not been found.
Earhart wrote a letter to her husband in the case that she might die. "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
This video is a clip from the movie titled Amelia, it is about Earhart's life and her struggles and it shows how determined she was to be the best pilot she could be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ioZCEpRLpxo
Earhart wrote a letter to her husband in the case that she might die. "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
This video is a clip from the movie titled Amelia, it is about Earhart's life and her struggles and it shows how determined she was to be the best pilot she could be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ioZCEpRLpxo