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Amelia Earhart was a risk-taker. She had been challenging herself for years, repeatedly participating in flying events and making difficult trips by air, such as her flight across the Atlantic in 1928. Prior to her June 1937 attempt at an around-the-world trip, she had sometimes undertaken flights that put her life in danger; she was doing what no other woman aviator had ever accomplished. It was in early 1937 when she decided she wanted to try to be the first woman to fly around the world.

She began her preparation in March 1937, by making her first practice attempt at a long distance flight; unfortunately, that effort was not only unsuccessful, but worse yet, it seriously damaged her plane. Undaunted, she was determined to try again, as she had confidence in her ability to make one last amazing flight. She had her twin-engine plane repaired and rebuilt, and took off from Miami on June 1st, with her navigator Fred Noonan. As we know today, she did not complete that flight; but the fact that she was unsuccessful was not in any way due to a lack of preparation nor a lack of courage on her part. She died doing what she loved most.

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