Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchi­son, Kansas. It is said that the year of Amelia Earhart’s death is 1937. How­ever the place of her demise is unknown. This soon to be world famous aviator’s first taste of avi­a­tion really did not impress her all that much. A while after see­ing that air­plane at the state fair, Amelia Earhart went to a stunt fly­ing exhi­bi­tion where her life long love of fly­ing was born. Dur­ing that fate­ful exhi­bi­tion a pilot dove towards Amelia and a friend while they watched the show, most likely in an attempt to scar­ing them. Amelia Earhart stood her ground and as the plane swooped over her head that this was her lifes calling.

After she grad­u­ated from high school in 1915 Amelia Earhart worked for a time as a nurse’s aide in a Cana­dian mil­i­tary hos­pi­tal dur­ing the first world war. Earhart attended col­lege and became a social worker. Amelia Earhart took her very first fly­ing les­son in Jan­u­ary of 1921 and just six months later through a lot of hard work was able to put together enough money to pur­chase her own plane. The bright yel­low plane named “Canary” was used by Amelia Earhart to set her first women’s fly­ing record for reach­ing an alti­tude of 14,000 feet.

Amelia Earhart entered sev­eral fly­ing con­tests over the years that weren’t taken very seri­ously by men. Through these com­pe­ti­tions she met George Put­nam who would even­tu­ally become her hus­band. How­ever still want­ing to remain inde­pen­dent Amelia Earhart thought of her mar­riage more as a part­ner­ship and had been quoted as say­ing the rela­tion­ship was “dual control”.

In the years that fol­lowed Amelia Earhart con­tin­ued to smash flight records while plan­ning her last adven­ture. At the age of forty years old Amelia Earhart wished to be the first woman to fly around the world. The ill fated flight was not the suc­cess she hoped it would be as she and her co-pilot never made it to their final destination.

While no one knows for sure what hap­pened it is a the­ory of many that Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot were cap­tured and pos­si­bly killed by the Japan­ese in Saipan.

In 2009, Amelia was included in two films, Night at the Museum: Bat­tle for the Smith­son­ian, and Amelia.