John Cavins
English 11
3-19-18

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897. She defied gender roles from a young age. She played basketball and took an auto repair course in high school then briefly attended college. In WW1 she served as a Red Cross nurse’s aide in Toronto Canada. While in Toronto Amelia began to spend more time watching pilots in the Royal Flying Corps train at a local airfield. After her time in the war she returned to the U.S. and enrolled at Columbia University as a pre-med student. She didn’t take her first airplane ride until December of 1920 in California. She rode with famed WW1 pilot Frank Hawks and was forever in love. She started flying lessons in January 1921. Her instructor was a famous female named Neta Snook. To pay for her lessons she worked as a filling Clark at the Las Angeles Telephone Company. She purchased her first airplane later that year for $2000. She nicknamed her yellow plane “The Canary”. She finally passed her flight test in December 1921. In witch she earned the National Aeronautics Association license. About two days later, she participated in her first flight exhibition at the Sierra Airdrome in Pasadena, …show more content…
On an east bound flight around the world. She would fly a twin-engine Lockheed 10E Electra and would be assisted on the flight by navigator Fred Noonan. Set off on their flight and headed toward Miami, then to South America. Across the Atlantic to Africa, then east to India and Southeast Asia. They reached Lae, New Guinea on June 29. By the time they reached Lae they had already flown 22,000 miles. They only had about 7,00 more miles to go. The pair had lost radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Itasca anchored off the Coast of Howland Island. President F.D.R authorized a massive $4 million two-week search for the pair, but they were never found. Maybe one of these theories will be the