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How Did Amelia Earhart Gain Her Greatest Accomplishments

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This article discusses how Amelia Earhart gained her greatest accomplishments. At 10 years old, she notices an airplane flying high in the sky for the first time at the state fair, but wasn’t seriously interested in flying until she attended a stunt-flying exhibition 10 years later. The moment that changed her life forever was riding in an airplane alongside Pilot Frank Hawks on December 28, 1920. Earhart commented on that moment in her life saying, “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” Consequently, Amelia took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921, and bought her first plane, “the Canary”, six months later. She set many records such as her first women’s record of an altitude 14,000 feet using “the Canary”, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger, placing third place at the Cleveland Women’s Air Derby, the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic, an altitude record for autogyros of 18,415 feet, the first person to fly solo across the Pacific, and the first to solo from Mexico City to Newark. However, Amelia Earhart is mostly known for her attempt to fly across the world, as well as, her disappearance. On July 2, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, departed from New Guinea towards their next location in their around-the-world trip, Howland Island. However, during the journey towards Howland Island, the transmissions to and from the plane couldn’t be heard clearly with the last

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