Biography of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was a well known pilot around since she was a women. She accomplished many great things. In her biggest flying mission yet, she disappeared. What happened to her? No one knows. But first let us Start from the beginning of her timeline.

Her parents -Edwin and Amy Earhart- welcomed Amelia to their home as a first child on July 24, 1897. Her home was in Atchison, Kansas. 3 years later, she too did welcome a baby girl to her home as her younger sister.

Her name was Muriel. Their childhood was tough. Her father's drinking got him fired from his well paid job. The girls and their mother left to Chicago shortly after. Her father and mother had split up.

In 1917, Amelia traveled to Canada. There she would visit her sister. During her visit, she saw hurt soldiers. She now has second thoughts about college. She wanted to be a nurse and help injured people like the soldiers she saw. So, she started nursing at a Soldier's Hospital.

In 1920, her parents got together again and moved to california. Amelia decided to move to California as well. For $1, Amelia went on a 10 minute ride on a plane over Los Angeles. She said, ""As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly. To pay for flying lessons, she worked a lot of jobs. Pilot Anita Shooks was her teacher. She soon wanted to buy her own plane.

Amelia received a phone call in 1927. Captain Hilton Railey had an offer she could not say no to. She became the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean in 1928. Though Amelia was not the pilot, the newspaper ignored the 2 men that pilotes and she got the attention.

4 years later, she wanted to fly across the Atlantic on her own. It took 13 hours and 30 minutes. Now she was famous throughout europe and the U.S.A. A few years later, she flew from Hawaii to california putting her the first woman to do so.

She also participated in a cross-country air race. She founded women pilots called the ""Ninety-Nines because of their 99 members.

In 1937, she wanted to fly around the world. She set out with her navigator Fred Nooran to Thailand and Australia. Taking off in New Guinea, the U.S coast guard lost all contact with her. With that, there was no trace of them ever found. And the passengers? Never found again. That is why Amelia Earhart was famous and mysterious.

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