She was a passenger to publicise the idea of women flying.
Amelia Earhart's role on her first transatlantic flight was to maintain the plane's log. Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937 and was declared dead 2 years later.
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she was a forward observer.
She was basically a passenger on a flight piloted by Wilmer Stultz in 1928.
The First friendship flight, a Foker trimotor with floats-She functioned as a Forward Observer, did not actually or at least officially pilot the craft. on the other hand she mad a solo flight in l932 in a Lockheed Vega, also named the Friendship.
she is recognized as the first first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean
Pilot and navigator.
She was a passenger on that flight .
On her first trans-Atlantic flight she was basically an observer.
Aviators Bert Hawkes and Charles Lindbergh were some of Amelia's role models. She deliberately made her solo Atlantic flight on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's historic flight
While Amelia Earhart did not have a role in the first Trans-Atlantic flight, She was the first woman to make the trip in 1928, although she rode as a passenger. In 1932 she flew as the first woman to fly nonstop solo across the Atlantic.
She was a non-operating forward observer on the (friendship) flight in l928, but made the trip solo, on a one-woman flight, in l932 with a different type of plane, a Lockheed Vega. The original plane, or one similar to it, is in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.