Amelia+Earhart

//__ Amelia Earhart __// Have you ever heard of Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart was a famous pilot that was in the process of setting her greatest record, flying across the Atlantic, but she had never made it back to her starting point, America. The government had spent millions of dollars looking for Amelia. Still to this day, Amelia’s disappearance is still a mystery. The world considers Amelia Earhart’s story to be one of the strangest disappearance today. After reading the research, you will be able to see that Amelia Earhart did not disappear, but the whole story has a reasonable explanation to it.

Amelia was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas at 11:30pm. At first Amelia was never interested in air planes, and she probable could never have ever imagined what would happen in the earlier future. Her amazing flying career started in Los Angeles, in 1921 at the age of 24. Amelia had taken flying lessons from Neta Snook, and she saved enough money to buy her first plane, a Kinner Airstar which she called Canary. She was forced to sell her plane because of family problems. After, Amelia moved east, and got a job as a social worker, for four years. Soon she returned to Aviation, and bought a new plane, an Avro Avian. With that plane, Amelia became the first woman to make a solo-transcontinental flight. After Amelia always continued to set, and break flight records.

In 1932, Amelia became a “household word” when she flew across the Atlantic. She was the first female, and one of only a few to receive the //__Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross.__// The U.S. post office issued the //__Amelia Earhart $.08__// stamp on Amelia’s birthday, July 24, 1963. In 1937, Amelia had decided to end her flying career by being the first female to fly across the world. "I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system, and I hope this trip is it," she said (Earhart).

Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan had started their 29,000 mile tip on June 1st, in Miami. The team was constructed of, Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan, Harry Manning, Paul Mantz. After the whole team had landed in Lae, New Guinea, almost the entire trip had been completed, but 7,000 miles of the long trip. On July 2, at 12:30 pm the team took off.

The U.S. Cost Guard ordered the whole ship to burn every light on the ship, because they were on by the flight area were Amelia’s team would be over. "Howland is such a small spot in the Pacific that every aid to locating it must be available," Earhart said. Amelia Seemed to not report to the necessary area, and when the Cost Guards did get a chance to reach Amelia the radio was very fuzzy. "We must be on you, but we cannot see you. Fuel is running low. Been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet." Amelia had said. "We are running north and south." Those were the last words heard from Amelia. The government had spent millions looking for Amelia, but they never succeeded in finding her. To this day it is a mystery of what really happened to Amelia, but to my perspective her plane had crashed because her plane ran out of fuel because skipped the closes fuel stop. Still no one found her body or the plane, but some say Amelia is living on a deserted island. No one will probable ever know what happened to Amelia Earhart, but to this day she is still remembered for her courage and amazing efforts of flying across the world. __ Madison Colaco __