Amelia Earhart

  • Birth

    Birth
    Amelia was born on 24 July 1897.
  • Childhood

    Childhood
    Raised in Atchison, Kansas, and then in Des Moines, Iowa
  • World War I

    World War I
    During World War I she served as a nurse in a Canadian field hospital.
  • Studies

    Studies
    Amelia studied at the University of Columbia, New York.
  • Record

    Record
    In October 1922 she achieved her first altitude record, flying at 4267 metres.
  • First female passenger

    First female passenger
    In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane.
  • First transantlantic flight

    First transantlantic flight
    In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia made a non-stop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this achievement.
  • Other fligths

    Other fligths
    In January 1935, she made a solo crossing between Honolulu (Hawaii) and Oakland (California).
  • Flight around the wolrd

    Flight around the wolrd
    In 1937, Amelia Earhart announced that she would attempt to circumnavigate the globe using a different route than usual. They began the journey on 1 June 1937, flying from Miami (Florida) to South America, from there to Africa and then to the East Indies.
    After completing 33,000 kilometres in 30 days, more than two-thirds of the journey, her plane disappeared in a storm on 2 July, on the penultimate leg of the trip, which was to take them from Lae (New Guinea) to Howland Island, off Australia.
  • Die

    Die
    Disappeared on 2 July 1937 and declared dead on 5 January 1939, when her bones were found on the island of Nikumaroro.