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The accomplishments of Amelia Earhart in the field of aviation were many. She is best remembered as the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic, May 20-21, 1932. For this achievement Vice President Charles Curtis awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross on July 29, 1932. Some of her other achievements included: setting the women's altitude record, the women's speed record, the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California, and she was the first woman to make a solo round trip of the United States. On July 2, 1937, she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, while on a round-the-world flight, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
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Amelia Earhart was one of the first women in aviation to juggle a public and private life. Her 1931 marriage to publisher George Putnam did not prevent her from setting an autogyro altitude record. the following year she reaccomplished the Atlantic flight which brought her fame, this time as a solo pilot flying from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Ireland, a first for a woman. At a time when women were extremely rare in technical and scientific areas, Amelia Earhart distinguished herself by setting records which bettered men's records as well as women's.
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Amelia Earhart gained considerable fame on June 17-18, 1928, as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. The Fokker trimotor piloted by Wilman Stutz and Louis Gordon flew from Trepassy Bay, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, Wales. However, on this flight she would only serve as a passenger. She took the place of Amy Guest, the heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune. Guest's family had forbidden her to make the trip so she had agreed to give up her seat to a women. Amelia jumped at the chance.
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Hungry for new challenges, Amelia Earhart set the solo record for flying coast to coast that same year. She continued to set more records for her brave journeys. And in 1937, Earhart set out on her most daring adventure of all. After one failed attempt, she started to make her way around the world on June 1. Leaving from Miami, Florida, Earhart with navigator Bill Noonan made it to New Guinea on June 30. On July 2, they took off for their next stop, which was supposed to be tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, but they never made it there.
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"As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly," Amelia Earhart is reported to have said after her first flight. And fly she did. Fascination with the "Queen of the Air" endures in large part due to her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific in 1937, but the plucky aviatrix's gender-defying talents—she was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic—made her one of the most celebrated faces of her own time. Clad in leather jackets, silk ties, and slim trousers, the Kansas-born tomboy ushered in an era of independence for women confined until then to corsets and sitting rooms. Indeed, her slight frame and boyish crop of tousled hair led to comparisons with Charles Lindbergh—her generation's other great pilot. But behind those goggles "Lady Lindy" was a true beauty, with silver-dollar eyes, a slender neck, and freckles scattered across a button nose.
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Amelia Earhart wasn't afraid to break down barriers. In 1928, she was the first woman to fly as a passenger across the Atlantic Ocean. Then, in 1932, she became the first woman to pilot a plane across that ocean. There weren't many female pilots back then, and her actions inspired other women to follow their dreams. This was especially important because there were few career choices available to women at that time. Amelia Earhart has inspired generations of women to do things that had never been done by women before.
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