Amelia Earheart Brutal Disappear

The 24th of July 1897 was born Amelia Earheart, one of the most incredible personalities in the history of humanity. And one of the most inspiring characters for generations of women around the world.

But first let's discover who Amelia Earheart was.

From childhood, the young "Meeley" showed a strong taste for adventure, spending long hours exploring the surroundings and playing outside. with her younger sister (the person that encouraged her the most as she will later say).

After studying at a high school in Chicago and then at a university in Pennsylvania, the young Amelia joined her sister in Toronto, Canada, where she discovered the horrors of the First World War. Assisting in the return of crippled soldiers, she joined the Canadian Red Cross as a nurse's aide in 1917.

The following year, she worked for a military hospital where she helped treat victims of the Spanish flu pandemic, falling sick herself.

This experience pushes her to later begin medical studies, which she abandons after one year.

It was only by 1920 that the fate of Amelia, changed when her father took her to meet a pilot at a Long Beach airport. A ten-minute flight was enough to convince her that she had to learn flying.

In 1921, she manages to raise enough money to buy herself a yellow biplane which she named "The Canary". The following year, she took off in her plane and managed to reach an altitude of 4,300 meters, being the very first time in a woman pilot has achieved such a deed. In May 1923, Amelia obtained her pilot's license, becoming the 16th American to acquire it.

In 1927, an important event changed her life forever, when Charles Lindbergh made history by becoming the first pilot to fly from New York to Paris non-stop and solo.

Then emerges in the popular culture, the idea of ​​a similar feat with a woman as

a pilot. Five tried the adventure, without success. Until Amelia in April 1928 to gave it a try. On June 17, she took off from Newfoundland aboard an aircraft alongside another pilot, Wilmer Stultz, and the mechanic, Louis Gordon. The trio landed 20 hours and 40 minutes later in Wales. The reception was triumphant: Amelia Earhart has became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane.

But Amelia was Pissed, this was not what they promised her as she declared to the french newspaper Le Matin on June 19, 1928, "During the whole crossing, I was only a passenger, a simple passenger".

After this disappointment she decided to make her own history on becoming a a famous aviator. She was nicknamed "Lady Lindy" in reference to her resemblance to Charles Lindbergh. And she confirmed her talents a few months later by making a first solo crossing of the American continent.

As early as 1930, she set several world records for a female pilot, reaching an altitude of 5,613 meters and a speed of 291 kilometers per hour.

Two years later, on May 20, 1932, at the age of 34, she did an Atlantic Sea crossing aboard a Lockheed Vega plane. But this time in Solo. It takes her 14 hours and 56 minutes to connect Harbor Grace in Canada to Derry in Northern Ireland.

As since 1936, Amelia Earhart had the dream of ​​a world tour by plane. After a first failed test in March 1937, a second flight took place in June, with her assistant pilot Fred Noonan, they connected Miami to Lae in New Guinea, covering a total of around 35,000 kilometers with several stops.

Then, the Duo took off on July 2, 1937, from Lae's airfield with the aim of reaching Howland Islet in the west-central Pacific about twenty hours later to refuel. The two aviators will never reach their destination.

Although the alert was quickly given by July 2, Earhart and Noonan gave no further signs of life.

The last messages sent by them were analyzed. They mentioned they only had fuel left for thirty minutes flight and that they cannot see the islet. Coast Guards went immediately searching the two pilots and their aircraft. Without success.

From July 3, hope had vanished in the absence of any signs. The search stopped by mid-July 1937 without being able to elucidate what happened to the team.

This brutal and Mysterious disappearance combined with all her performances, turned out Amelia Earheart one of the most Inspiring legends of human history. It's impossible to count how much woman followed her dream and her example and became pilots. Still now some Fictions still mention her, even in series like Star Trek (Star Trek Voyager).

Amelia Earhart is now a famous aviator.

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