She started flight school in January 1921.
The world flight started officially in Miami.
Paciffic Ocean but she was not alone.
It started when she saw an aircraft flying at the Canadian Exposition.
She was 39 when she started her round the world flight.
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Amelia Earhart stopped to get her last fuel on an island called Howland Island. Howland is right near the Brumuta Triangle which is where they lost track of her.
WHEN SHE WAS A little GIRL.
June 1st, 1937.
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Because they met headwinds at the start of the final flight, causing more fuel burn in the engines.
Amelia lived through a major war, the advent of real flight, the start of many new things. It would take a book to begin to list them all.