Amelia Earhart

In the year l93l, in Paris. She had mannish attire including Levis or more restrained tapered pants, not the usual Bridal outfit. She was divorced with lightning speed- cause never made public- in l935. This may have been after her successful California- Hawaii Pacific flight that happened at the same time the opera star, Marcella Sembrich, died in New York- so a headling mish-mosh.

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Her father was a lawyer and a purchasing agent for the A.T.S.F. (Santa Fe) railroad. Her mother was named Amy Otis Earhart and may or may not have been related to the elevator firm. Family resided in Atcheson, Ks, The A of At sf.

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This would have been her Crowning achievement. No human being had ever flown around the world (at that time). The Mission would take considerable time and much long-range reconnaisance and mapping could be undertaken, consider that she (lifted off) on St.Patrick"s day of 1937 and was not posted missing until July 2 of that year., Over three months! Really an expedition and not a (Flight) which conveys the idea of something overnight or (Hell for leather) speed oriented. this was a panorama cruise not a speed dash, and had it been successful, well who knows what the next chapter might have been. Dorothy Killgallen,(madame Kill) was a crime writer from the NY metro area and was catapulted to fame by her coverage of the Gladys Mcknight axe murder case in l936. her Globe-trotting would have to have been post-Earhart, and again, was undertaken on commercial passenger lines. There is a book on the subject, called, I believe, Girl around the world. It used to be in the Bayonne Public Library in their aviation section. Ms. Killgallen is recalled in Bayonne as that was the locus of the Gladys Mcknight case. (Rickety-Rax, here comes the Axe) this was a horrific crime for relatively placid Bayonne in l936.

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She disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

Amelia wanted to fly a plane because she believed women could do whatever men could do. She wanted to set the example for women around the world.

Amelia Earhart married to George P. Putnam in February 7, 1931

Yes. She was married to George Putnam

Amelia Earhart had to first overcome prejudice and the obvious problem of money

Yes, Amelia earned many medals. Among them were the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, the National Geographic Gold Medal and the French 'Knight of the Legion of Honour.'

there are many idea's how she died. some say she crash landed and died. others say she crash landed lived, then died of old age. all we for sure know is she went on a plain ride and never came back aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that is sdo scary

Amelia earhart was a fantastic flyer that struck the hearts of woman around the world. She attemted to fly around the world but she failed and she disapeared. She is my life...

Among several Non-aviation jobs She (according to various biographers) Served as a Nurse"s aid at a VA hospital, taught English in school (not known what level or what locality) drove a delivery truck, (at least transportation oriented) and also authored at least two books, plus a third the (Last Flight) which was posthumously published by her husband, George Palmer Putnam.

Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back in Augusti 1928, during Calvin Coolidge's presidency.

I think she was definitely into Microsoft Flight Simulator when she was a kid. A paper. Which she folded into an airplane. And thus, a lifelong love was born. UPDATE When being a little kid in Atchison, KS, she had as a beloved toy a small wooden donkey, whom she named "Donk"

Well im pretty sure she cant because by now she would be about 115 or so but back in the 19's if she had survived the crash probably by using safety equipment from the plane and things around them

She went to Ogontz School in Philadelphia, an exclusive high school and junior college. During Christmas vacation of her second year there Amelia went to Toronto, Canada, where Muriel (her sister) was attending a private school. In Toronto Amelia saw her first amputees, returning wounded from World War I. She immediately refused to return to Ogontz and became a volunteer nurse in a hospital for veterans.

I am pretty sure that she went to other colleges to.

But i have no clue.

Well, as she would say " I want to fly for the fun of it!"

she was the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean.

In 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the United States, connecting the eastern and western coasts of the country for the first time. This monumental achievement significantly transformed transportation, facilitating trade and migration, and contributing to the economic growth of the nation. The ceremonial joining of the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, marked a pivotal moment in American history, symbolizing unity and progress.

Truly no one knows so there's no right or wrong answer. It can't be definite like "was" it can only be "claimed" or "supposedly" or "possibly". However I won't change the previous answer because it was a good bit of research.

Yes she was a spy for the U.S government, and the Lockhead Electra was outfitted with military surveillance cameras.

UPDATE:

"Theory 1"

This is a popular version, but in fact there is no serious and credible evidence that Amelia Earhart was really a "spy". Some existing claims about the "cameras" as if installed in her plane were proven as disputable - in best case. It still doesn't impeach the possibility that before her flight she was asked (possibly personally - by her friend President Franklin D Roosevelt) just to "keep her eyes open" while flying in distant areas of the world - about the available flying fields and other aviation infrastructure, radio facilities etc... a thing that is sometimes called a "white intelligence" and is pretty common in such cases.

'Theory 2'

Yes, she was a covert operative for U.S. Naval Intelligence.

Yes, she was a brilliant explorer or the air, aviatrix and in essence a spy for the US Government.

We have to remember, that in the pre-satellite era of WW2, it was very common for explorers around the world to incorporate missions for their respective governments and then be de-briefed afterwards upon return.

The British, Germans and Japanese were famous for this. The Japanese going so far as to have the Kampeitai (Japanese Secret Police) order all Japanese businessmen in China to deliver hard intelligence on China 'matters' on a regular basis to Japanese Intelligence, as a matter of course.

Earhart's round the world trip was in some part enabled and secretly financed as a military mission.

She did this both out of sheer patriotism as well as the deep personal friendship she had with FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt.

FDR (a former Secretary of the Navy) had a well founded desire to keep tabs on the bloody, unprovoked, Japanese war of genocidal aggression in China and Manchuria from 1931, as well as guard against Emperor Hirohito's grandiose plans for a Japanese 'East-Asian' Empire in Asia.

As it related to the United States, the U.S. Philippines Protectorate and the US fleet at Pearl Harbor, FDR's fears proved to be well founded on Dec. 7th, 1941 when the 'friendly' Japanese sank the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, and invaded the Philipines, British Malaya and Hong Kong.

"I know the the real dope on Amelia Earhart's last trip."

The topic came up during my recent interview with Wayne Green, which focused on the octagenarian's long - and continuing - career as a high-tech entrepreneur and publisher of titles such as BYTE Magazine (Click here to read the full Computerworld interview).

Green says that back in the 1930s, his father ran the airport where Earhart's plane was based, and Green - always the "conspiracy factist," claims to have heard the inside scoop over a family dinner with her mechanic one evening. So as our interview wound down, I asked him to tell his story. Green's answer hit the cutting room floor, but I've resurrected it below. What follows is Wayne Green's first-hand account of what transpired.

"My dad got hired to build an airport in Philadelphia, Central Airport. She kept her plane at my dad's airport and I used to play in her plane.

"Her mechanic was a good friend of my dad's. In 1935 we were living in Brooklyn and one day this fellow came over and had dinner with us. He explained that [Earhart] was going on this trip around the world and that the whole purpose of the trip was to take pictures of Truk Island and the Japanese naval installations there. The whole trip around the world was based on that.

'She was supposed to fly up from Lea, New Guinea up to Howland Island. But instead of going straight she would go up and take picture of Truk and then go over to Howland. [Her mechanic] put in more powerful engines and extra wing tanks so she could make the trip in the same time as she normally would have and he put in the cameras and so forth. He told us all about it.

"This was in 1935, before she went on the trip. Then she made the trip, and disappeared over the pacific. She couldn't find Howland and she had a choice of either going West to the Caroline Islands, which are few and far between, or to the Marshall Islands, which are all over the place and you can't miss them.

"Cut to seven years later, 1944, I'm in the Marshall [Islands] for a rest camp in a [U.S. Navy] submarine. We're talking with the natives and they say, 'Oh yeah, seven years ago a plane landed on the beach. The man in the plane got hurt in the landing but the woman was OK. The Japanese came and took the two of them and the plane away a few days later up to Saipan.'

"When we went to Saipan we had a night to go ashore. I asked the natives there and they said, 'Oh sure, they were here and when it looked like the Americans were going to take the island they killed [Earhart] and buried her. The man died several years earlier from his wounds. When the Americans got there they burned the plane.'

"They had gotten the most famous woman in the world to act as a spy and they didn't want anyone to know it. That's the story that I knew."

no one knows. some one else also typed this and i had to delete it because it made no sense!

She showed people that women can do the same things that men can do. and gender should not matter when it comes to anything!

She was born in Atchison, Kansas.