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TANUDEEP GANGULY’S

PRESENTATION

ON

AMELIA EARHART

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Amelia Earhart

Born-

july 24, 1897 Atchison, Kansas, U.S Disappeared- July 2, 1937 (aged 39)Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland IslandKnown for- Many early aviation records, including first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.Slide3

she was an American

aviation

pioneer and author.Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.She set many other records,wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.Earhart joined the faculty of the

Purdue University

aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the

National Woman's Party

, and an early supporter of the

Equal Rights Amendment

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During an attempt to make a

circumnavigational

flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.Slide5

Early life- Childhood

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867-1930) and Amelia "Amy"

Otis Earhart (1869–1962),was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), a former

federal judge

, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town.

Amelia was the second child of the marriage, after an infant stillborn in August 1896. She was of part

German

descent. Alfred Otis had not initially favored the marriage and was not satisfied with Edwin's progress as a lawyer.Slide6

Earhart was named, according to family custom, after her two grandmothers (Amelia Josephine

Harres

and Mary Wells Patton).From an early age Earhart, nicknamed "Meeley" (sometimes "Millie") was the ringleader while her younger sister (two years her junior), Grace Muriel Earhart (1899–1998), nicknamed "Pidge", acted the dutiful follower.Both girls continued to answer to their childhood nicknames well into adulthood.Their upbringing was unconventional since Amy Earhart did not believe in molding her children into "nice little girls."Meanwhile their maternal grandmother disapproved of the "bloomers" worn by Amy's children and although Earhart liked the freedom they provided, she was aware other girls in the neighborhood did not wear them.Slide7

Early flying experiences

At about that time, with a young woman friend, Earhart visited an air fair held in conjunction with the

Canadian National Exposition in Toronto. One of the highlights of the day was a flying exhibition put on by a World War I ace.The pilot overhead spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching from an isolated clearing, and dived at them. "I am sure he said to himself, 'Watch me make them scamper,'" she said. Earhart stood her ground as the aircraft came close. "I did not understand it at the time," she said, "but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by."By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College

but changed her mind and enrolled at

Columbia University

, in a course in medical studies among other programs. She quit a year later to be with her parents, who had reunited in California.Slide8

In

Long Beach

, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet [60–90 m] off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly." After that 10-minute flight (that cost her father $10), she immediately became determined to learn to fly. Working at a variety of jobs, including photographer, truck driver, and stenographer at the local telephone company, she managed to save $1,000 for flying lessons. Earhart had her first lessons, beginning on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field, near Long Beach. In order to reach the airfield, Earhart had to take a bus to the end of the line, then walk four miles (6 km). Earhart's mother also provided part of the $1,000 "stake" against her "better

judgement

."Her teacher was

Anita "

Neta

" Snook

, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus

Curtiss JN-4

"Canuck" for training. Earhart arrived with her father and a singular request, "I want to fly. Will you teach me?"Slide9

Earhart's commitment to flying required her to accept the frequently hard work and rudimentary conditions that accompanied early aviation training. She chose a leather jacket, but aware that other aviators would be judging her, she slept in it for three nights to give the jacket a "worn" look. To complete her image transformation, she also cropped her hair short in the style of other female flyers. Six months later, Earhart purchased a secondhand bright yellow

Kinner

Airster biplane which she nicknamed "The Canary." On October 22, 1922, Earhart flew the Airster to an altitude of 14,000 feet (4,300 m), setting a world record for female pilots. On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license (#6017) by the Fédération

Aéronautique

Internationale

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Promoting aviation

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ndorsements helped Earhart finance her flying.Accepting a position as associate editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, she turned this forum into an opportunity to campaign for greater public acceptance of aviation, especially focusing on the role of women entering the field. In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger airline service; along with Charles Lindbergh, she represented Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) and invested time and money in setting up the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, DC. (TAT later became TWA). She was a Vice President of National Airways, which conducted the flying operations of the Boston-Maine Airways and several other airlines in the

northeast.By

1940, it had become

Northeast Airlines

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