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Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 - c.July 2, 1937) was a famous American aviator, known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight over the Pacific Ocean.
Flying career
Born in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his alcoholism. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
Her introduction to aviation occurred at a Kansas state fair when she went up in an airplane piloted by Frank Hawks on December 28, 1920. She later joined her sister Muriel in Toronto, Canada where she worked as a nurse's aide in a military hospital looking after wounded soldiers of World War I. In 1919 she enrolled as a pre-medical student at Columbia University in New York City but after one semester moved to Los Angeles, California where she became interested in flying and began taking lessons from Neta Snook. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first airplane, a Kinner Airstar. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, she was able to keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
One afternoon in April, 1928, she got a phone call while at work. The man at the other end asked her "Would you like to fly the Atlantic?" She interviewed with the project coordinators, including book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam, and was asked to join pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon. The team left Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, in a Fokker F7 on June 17, 1928, and arrived at Burry Port, Wales, United Kingdom approximately 21 hours later. When the crew returned to the States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nicknamed the "Powder Puff Derby" by Will Rogers). She was engaged to Samuel Chapman, an attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and soon her life began to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on February 7, 1931. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
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