GROUP: 7

Amelia Mary Earhart was born on ___________________ in Atchison, Kansas. When she turned three, she was sent to live with her _______________ but never lived too far away from her parents. At the age of five, Amelia was an avid reader and enjoyed especially books by Charles Dickens. Her favorite poem was "_____________________________" by Algernon Charles Swinburne. When Amelia was six, she began attending the College Preparatory School in Atchison. She was a bright student, but she had a strange lack of interest which put her at the bottom of her class. In high school, Amelia not only was a cheerleader, she also played on the basketball team. "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting, the first words Amelia Earhart spoke in reference to an airplane. She was unimpressed by the craft. It wasn't until Earhart attended a stunt-flying exhibition, almost a decade later, that she became seriously interested in ______________. One of the pilots who found she hadnt taken her eyes off of his plane offered to take her up in it. She was feeling mixed emotions, fear and pleasure. On December 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change her life. Amelia wanted to prove to the world that she really was the first woman ________________ strictly by her piloting skills. Amelia wanted to make sure that women had the same _______________ as men. So she developed an organization that promoted equality for women. Amelia had challenged and encouraged women to contribute to society and be ________________ through out her life. She was the ________ women to fly solo across the Atlantic on ____________________. She had crossed the Atlantic in a record breaking ____ hrs and ____ mins. On Aug. 24-25 of ________, Amelia became the first women to fly from coast to coast. Won ____________ trophy in 1935. On _______________, she became first person to fly solo from ____________ to ____________. Amy Guest was a wealthy aristocrat. The Guest family had hired George Putnam to look for a suitable women pilot who had selected Amelia Earhart but introduced her as ______________.

 The frenzy surrounding the flight of the fist women to fly across the Atlantic had made the public all but forget about the pilots Louis Gordon and Wilmer Stutz. On May 21, 1932 five years after the Lindberghs flight, Amelia had taken off in an attempt to become second person (and first women) to fly solo across the Atlantic. She started in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Her flight had lasted almost 15 hours when she landed in a pasture near Londonderry, Northern Italy. Amelias route from Newfoundland to Ireland took _____ hours less than Lindberghs route from long Island to Paris. Her Vega 5B is on display at the ____________________ NASM. In 1937, Amelia Earhart attempted an around-the-world flight. Flying a custom-built Lockheed Model 10E Electra, equipped with extra-large gas tanks, she would follow a 'close to the Equator' route, thus one better than Wiley Post's northern, mid-latitude route. In her first effort, in March of 1937, she flew west, but ____________________________ abruptly ended that trip. On May 21, 1937 from Oakland, California, in the recently repaired Lockheed Electra, she and her navigator, Fed Noonan, stayed over land as much as possible. After relatively short flights to Burbank, California, and Tucson, Arizona, they next touched down in New Orleans, and then Miami where the airplane was tuned-up for the long trip. From Miami, they flew through the Caribbean, to an enthusiastic welcome in San Juan, and then to Natal, Brazil, for the shortest possible hop over the Atlantic, although, at 1727 miles, it was the longest leg of the journey that they completed safely. From Calcutta, India they flew to Rangoon, Bangkok, and then Bandung, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Monsoon weather prevented departure from Bandung for several days. Repairs were made on some of the long distance instruments which had given them trouble previously. During this time Amelia had become ill with dysentery that lasted for several days. After a stop in Darwin, Australia, they continued eastward to Lae, New Guinea, arriving there on June 29. From Lae, they took off for Howland Island, _____ miles away in the Pacific. They never arrived. If her landing on the water was perfect, Earhart and Noonan might have had time to escape the aircraft with a life raft and survival equipment before it sank. An intensive search of the vicinity by the Coast Guard and U.S. Navy found no physical evidence of the fliers or their plane. Additional searches through the years have likewise failed to find any trace of the Lockheed or of Earhart and Noonan. Also, a lot of people speculate that her disappearance was over the _____________________ according to its legend. Any plane or ship that passed within the triangle mysteriously vanished.