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Short Essay On Amelia Earhart

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The Lockheed air ship carrying American pilot Amelia Earhart and guide Frederick Noonan is reported missing on July 2, 1937. Earhart’s round-the-world-flight was cut short when her Lockheed Electra disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
She was born in Atchison, Kansas 1897. One year her and her family went on a Christmas vacation to visit her sister in Toronto, 1917. During this vacation, a pilot flew his plane near her. That Christmas vacation would have the biggest impact the rest of her life. She started flying at the age of 24 and later known as one of the most punctual female pilots. In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh flew solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. A year later, in 1928, the publisher of Lindbergh’s autobiography, George P. Putnam, also Earhart’s soon to be husband, invited Earhart to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Departing from Miami first, on June 1, 1937, Earhart and Fred, the navigator, set out on her journey around the world. This trip would be 29,000 miles long heading east. As Earhart was approaching Howland Island, she sent out a message to the U.S. Drift Guard that she was lost and running low on fuel. To get fuel she would need to stop and land on Howland Island, which is only 1.5 miles long and a half mile wide. Landing on …show more content…

One theory from a school scholar thinks that Earhart was a secret agent working for a close friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor. The scholar claims when they went off course, they were trying to spy on Japanese-occupied islands in the Pacific, or Earhart and Noonan landed on one of the islands by the Japanese and was captured and held as prisoners. But another theory of her disappearance is she landed safely and came back to America, changed her name and started a new life because she could not handle the fame

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