Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas. During World War I she worked as a nurse's aide in Toronto, and after seeing a flying exhibition she took her first plane ride in 1920 in California and decided she had to fly. She took lessons from the pilot Neta Snook and bought her first plane, a yellow biplane she called the Canary. In 1928 she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane, though as a passenger; she said she felt like a sack of potatoes. In 1932 she flew solo across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Northern Ireland, the first woman and second person to do so, and later flew solo from Hawaii to California. She helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, and married the publisher George Putnam. In 1937 she set out with navigator Fred Noonan to fly around the world near the equator. After completing about 22,000 miles, they left New Guinea on July 2 to find tiny Howland Island in the Pacific, and vanished. A large search found no trace, and their fate remains a mystery.

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