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Amelia Earhart began her second flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20, 1932, flying out from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. On her first flight, Earhart was only allowed to take notes as a passenger; on the second she flew solo, a feat only accomplished previously by Charles Lindbergh. Landing in a field near Londonderry, Ireland, Earhart completed the flight in 15 hours and 18 minutes, the fastest Atlantic crossing at that time.
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In June 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, embarked on a round-the-world flight, starting in California and mapping a 28,000 mile route along the earth's equator. On July 2, 1937, after completing 22,000 miles, the pair took off from New Guinea and headed toward Howland Island in the Pacific. Earhart and Noonan never reached the island; a faint distress call was the last anyone heard from the pilots. Rescuers launched a 16-day search...
10) Amelia Earhart
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A brief biography of the first woman pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean and to fly alone across the United States, as well as the first pilot to fly alone across the Pacific Ocean.
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She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays...
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When Amelia "Millie" Ashford gets an invitation to spend the night in Amelia Earhart's childhood home with five other girls, she can't believe her luck. When she gets there, Millie discovers Amelia Earhart's famous flight goggles that are about to be sent to a museum in Washington, D.C. During a scavenger hunt, the girls realize the goggles have gone missing, and Millie was the last one seen with them. As other strange things start happening, the...
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"The inspirational and untold story of the women who broke apart the [Explorers Club] . . . and founded the Society of Woman Geographers (SWG), and how some key members--including Blair Niles, Amelia Earhart, Gloria Hollister, and Anna Heyward Taylor paved the way for women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and art"--Provided by publisher.
17) Amelia Earhart
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Introduces to readers the life and legacy of the first female air pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while on a flight around the world.