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1. Amelia Earhart -- Howland Island
   Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, at her grandparent's home in Atchison, Kansas, a small town overlooking the Missouri River. She spent much of her childhood in Atchison with her grandparents and attended private schools there. Amelia's father, Edwin Earhart, worked with the Rock Island Railroad as a claims manager. When he was transferred, the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa.
2. Earhart, Amelia -- Amelia Earhart
   In early 1937, to help finance Amelia’s world flight, George Putnam arranged for Gimbels in New York to sell letter covers that Amelia would carry with her, and, along the route, mail back to collectors. Ten thousand of the covers sold. Amelia began her round-the-world flight at the equator in Oakland, California and set a new record for fastest east to west (Oakland to Honolulu) travel in 15 hours and 47 minutes (March 17-18). After landing, the plane was moved to Luke Field near Pearl Harbor, where it was refueled. On takeoff from Luke Field for Howland Island, Amelia ground looped the plane and badly damaged it (March 20). The airplane was repaired at the Lockheed plant in California and a second round-the-world attempt started, this time departing from Miami, Florida and traveling from west to east (June 1).
3. Earhart, Amelia
   After growing up some, Amelia had decided she wanted to train to be a nurse’s aide. After going through the training to be a nurse’s aide, she decided to get more medical training. She went to Columbia University and pursued a pre med degree. During 1920 her parents had reunited and were living in California. Amelia had decided to go pay them a visit. During this time she had gone with her father to an aerial show at Daugherty Field in Long Beach.
4. Amelia Earhart
   Aviation legend Amelia Earhart is most famous for the mysterious circumstances of her death: she disappeared in 1937 somewhere in the South Pacific, near the end of an attempted round-the-world flight. Despite extensive searches, no clear evidence has ever been found of Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan, or their plane. Before her disappearance Earhart was one of the most famous women in America. She had set many flight records, including becoming the first woman to fly solo across both the Atlantic Ocean (in 1932) and the Pacific Ocean (in 1935). She ... was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in a multi-person plane, making the crossing in 1928 with pilot Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon. She authored the books 20 Hours, 40 Minutes (1928, about her first trans-Atlantic flight) and The Fun of It (1932).
5. Earhart, Amelia -- New York
   As she left New Guinea for Howland Island, Amelia Earhart flew under some of the worst conditions of the trip—as you will discover—and she had to turn back for the Gilbert Islands, a decision that ultimately led to her death. Can you learn from her mistakes and make it to Howland, Hawaii, and finally back to Oakland?
6. Amelia Earhart -- Fred Noonan
   On July 2, 1937, aviation pioneers Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan vanished into legend. The two explorers--Earhart piloting, Noonan navigating--were trying to be the first to circumnavigate the globe at the equator, and they’d made it all the way around from Oakland, California eastward to Lae, New Guinea. On the morning of the 2nd their fuel-heavy Lockheed Electra 10E took off from Lae heading for Howland Island, a tiny speck of coral in the mid-Pacific, where they were to refuel and fly to Honolulu, and thence back to Oakland. They didn’t make it. The US Coast Guard Cutter Itasca, lying off Howland, received messages from them--the last saying that they were flying “on the line 157-337”--but couldn’t establish two-way communication or a radio direction-finding fix. Earhart and Noonan couldn’t see the island, or communicate with Itasca. The messages ended, and that was that.
7. Amelia Earhart -- Planes
   Amelia Earhart perched atop her custom Lockheed Electra Model 10E, 1937. The plane had most of the cabin windows blanked out and had specially fitted fuselage fuel tanks. The modifications increased the tank size from 200 to 1200 galloons.
8. Earhart, Amelia -- Edwin Earhart
   Amelia left Columbia University in the summer of 1920 at her parents’ urging, and joined Edwin and Amy in Los Angeles in an effort to try and help them keep their marriage intact. In December, Amelia attended her first air meet, at Daugherty Field in Long Beach. She took her first ride in an airplane with Frank Hawks (December 1920). Amelia met pilot Neta Snook and asked her to provide flying lessons. She ... met her future fiancé Sam Chapman, who was living as a boarder in her parents’ home. On January 3, 1921, Amelia started taking flying lessons with Neta Snook.
9. Earhart, Amelia -- Fred Noonan
   Aviation legend Amelia Earhart is most famous for the mysterious circumstances of her death: she disappeared in 1937 somewhere in the South Pacific, near the end of an attempted round-the-world flight. Despite extensive searches, no clear evidence has ever been found of Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan, or their plane. Before her disappearance Earhart was one of the most famous women in America. She had set many flight records, including becoming the first woman to fly solo across both the Atlantic Ocean (in 1932) and the Pacific Ocean (in 1935). She ... was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in a multi-person plane, making the crossing in 1928 with pilot Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon. She authored the books 20 Hours, 40 Minutes (1928, about her first trans-Atlantic flight) and The Fun of It (1932).
10. Earhart, Amelia -- Atlantic Ocean
    Amelia Earhart was a pilot. She was born in Kansas, on July 24, 1897. She flew over the Atlantic Ocean. She went on 3 flights by herself. Her first plane ride was a ten minute ride over Los Angeles. She broke many records.

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