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Possibly the most famous female pilot ever, Amelia Earhart was born in 1897 in Kansas, USA. Amelia has a difficult and unsettled childhood. Her family traveled a great deal so her father could find work. Although she often missed school, Amelia was nevertheless considered to be very bright academically. She enjoyed reading and poetry, as well as sports, especially basketball and tennis.<br>After graduating from high school, instead of going to college, Amelia decided to study nursing. During the First World War, she worked as a military nurse in Canada. When the war ended, she became a social worker back in America and taught English to immigrants. In her free time, Amelia enjoyed going to air shows and watching aerial stunts, which were very popular during the !920s. Her fascination with flying began when, at one of these shows, she took a ten-minute plane ride, and from that moment on she knew she had to learn to fly.<br>Amelia took on several odd jobs to pay for the flying lessons and, after a year, she had saved enough money to buy her own plane. In 1922, she began taking part in record-breaking attempts and stunts and promoting flying for women. She organized cross-country air races for female pilots and formed a now famous women pilots' organization, called the "Ninety-Nines."<br>During this time it is reported that Amelia had many crashes. In those days planes were very unreliable and most of her accidents were probably the result of engine failure. However, Amelia's first instructor and close friend, Anita Snook, later admitted that she had her doubts about Amelia's skills as a pilot and her ability to take on the death defying feats and the long distance flights she became famous for.<br>Flying was still only a hobby for Amelia, who continued to teach, until one day she received an invitation to be the first woman ever to make the flight across the Atlantic from Canada to Britain. Amelia made the flight in 1928 and, although she was only a passenger and two men flew the plane, it made her a celebrity. She also met her future husband, George Putman, a publisher, who arranged the flight and organized the publicity<br>In 1932 Amelia and George, who were now married, decided Amelia should make the Atlantic crossing from America to Britain alone. She broke several records on this flight. She became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, the only person to have flown it twice and she established a new transatlantic crossing record of 13 hours and 30 minutes. Understandably, she became even more famous as a result, earning respect for a female pilots all over the world by proving that women could fly just as well as men, if not better.<br>In June 1937, Amelia took her final flight. Together with Fred Noonan, her navigator, she set out from Miami, Florida in an attempt to fly around the world. From Miami, they are successful to South America, from there to Africa and then across the Sahara Desert to Thailand, Singapore, Java and Australia. However, somewhere between New Guinea and Howland Island, their next port of call, Amelia's plane disappeared. The last message the coast guard received from Amelia said that she couldn't see the island due to bad weather and that fuel was running out. She never arrived. The US Navy searched for days, but there was no sign of the plane. No wreckage or bodies have ever been found.<br>Тайна все еще окружает исчезновение Амелии Эрхарт. Было много историй о том, что с ней случилось. Они считают, что Амелия потеряла контроль и разбила самолет. Другие полагают, что она провела остаток своей жизни, живя на необитаемом острове, в то время как другие думают, что она намеренно разбила свой самолет в Тихом океане. Никто не знает правды, хотя наиболее вероятное объяснение состоит в том, что у Амелии кончилось топливо и он упал в море и что она и ее самолет все еще лежат где-то у острова Хоуленд, на дне моря. ...
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