Who was the first woman to sail around the world?

Answer 1

You are probably referring to Amelia Earhart. During the 1920s, there were a number of women aviators who were setting records, but Amelia became the first woman aviator (or "aviatrix" as they were then called) to make a solo flight across the Atlantic, just like Charles Lindbergh had done in 1927. Amelia completed her transatlantic flight in May 1932. (She had been part of a three-person team that crossed the Atlantic in 1928, but this was her first successful solo trip.)

Answer 2

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic ocean solo.

This was Amelia Earhart. She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in a Lockheed Vega 5b, taking off from Harbour Grace in Newfoundland on 20th May 1932. She landed in Culmore, in Co. Derry, Northern Ireland just over 14 hours later. For her feat, she was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the US Senate.

She did make a transatlantic flight with two male colleagues four years earlier, accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz and engineer Louis Gordon on a flight from Newfoundland to Wales in the huge triple-engined Fokker F.VIIIb 'Friendship II' - however, at the time she held no instrument rating, and as most of the flight was at night-time she was just a passenger on the trip.

Earhart went missing on 2nd July 1937, whilst attempting to fly from California to Hawaii with her navigator and co-pilot Fred Noonan. Their 'plane, a twin-engined Lockheed Electra, disappeared somewhere near the Nukumaru islands South West of Hawaii. Neither they nor their aircraft have ever been recovered.

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The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was Amelia Earhart.

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Amelia Earhart was both the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (17 July 1928 from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada to Burry Point, Wales, UK), and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (20 May 1932 from Habour Grace, Newfoundland, Canada to Culmore, Northern Ireland).
The first woman o fly solo over the Atlantic ocean was Amelia Earhart. With this, she received the US Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Amelia Earhart. Some folks might honor the posthumous, died in the attempt San Raphael expedition but- the female crew member- Princess Anne Loewenstein was NOT a licensed pilot and she did not fly the plane, so to speak, this happened in l927 There is some evidence SOMETHING was recovered in Labrador in l957.

Answer 3

The first woman to sail around the world solo was Naomi James in 1978. Robin Knox-Johnston in 1968 was the first person to sail around the world solo non-stop.

Answer 4

Her name is KRYSTYNA CHOJNOWSKA-LISKIEWICZ, she is Polish. It took her two years to accomplish the task: 1976-78. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Chojnowska-Liskiewicz

Answer 5

Dame Naomi Christine James was the first woman to sail around the world single-handedly.

Answer 6

Madame Therese Peltier of France was the first woman to fly solo in 1908

Answer 7

Margaret Hicks in a Hurley 22.

Answer 8

Amelia Earhart

Answer 9

Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock

Answer 10

Kay Cottee