The American Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was a pioneer in aviation and a woman ahead of her time. Read her short biography below and answer the question.

 

Amelia Earhart, a woman in aviation career

 

1 Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her father, Edwin, was a lawyer who worked for the railroad. She spent a lot of her childhood playing with her younger sister Muriel.

2 Growing up, Amelia and her sister had all sorts of adventures. They collected insects and frogs. They liked to play sports including baseball and football.

 

3 When Amelia was eleven years old, in 1908, she saw one of the Wright Brothers first airplanes at the Iowa State Fair. She had no interest in flying and didn't think much of the plane at the time.

 

4 However, on December 28, 1920, Amelia and her father visited an air show in California. Amelia went on her first plane flight that day. She later said that "I knew I had to fly" as soon as the plane was just a few hundred feet off the ground.

5 Amelia worked hard and, together with some money from her mother, she was able to pay for flying lessons. Eventually she purchased her own plane. A bright yellow airplane she nicknamed the "Canary". She also got her pilot's license and set a new altitude record for female pilots of 14,000 feet.

 

6 In 1928, Amelia was invited to be the navigator in a historic flight. On June 18, 1928, after twenty-one hours of flying, she was the first woman to take part into the first flight across the Atlantic that landed in Wales.

 

7 Amelia was not satisfied, however. She wanted to make the same trip across the Atlantic, but this time she wanted to pilot the plane and make the flight by herself. In May 1932, Amelia became the second person to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo.

 

8 Although she was the most famous woman pilot in the world, Earhart wasn't satisfied and wanted to be the first woman to fly around the world. In June 1937, Amelia and Fred Noonan, her navigator, took off from Miami, Florida. They flew a number of flights. On July 02, they left for Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, but they were never seen from again.

 

9 Amelia Earhart was declared dead on January 05, 1939.

 

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After starting a professional career in aviation, Amelia Earhart achieved notorious deeds such as:

• piloting an airplane across the Pacific Ocean unaccompanied. 

• becoming the most acclaimed female pilot in the United States. 

• being part of the crew of the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 

• receiving an invitation to be in the first flight around the world. 

• being the first woman pilot to complete a flight around the globe.