Amelia Earhart Achievements
January 3, 1921 - Began flying lessons with Neta Snook July 1921 - Bought first plane, Kinner Airster (Canary) October 22, 1922 – Broke women’s altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet June 17-18, 1928 – First woman to fly across the Atlantic; 20 hrs 40 min (Fokker F7, Friendship) Summer 1928 – Bought an Avro Avian, a small English plane famous because Lady Mary Heath, Britain’s foremost woman pilot had flown it solo from Capetown, South Africa to London Fall 1928 – Published book 20 Hours 40 Minutes; toured and lectured; became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine August 1929 – Placed third in the First Woman’s Air Derby, aka the Powder Puff Derby; upgraded from her Avian to a Lockheed Vega Fall 1929 – Elected as an official for National Aeronautic Association and encouraged the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) to establish separate world altitude, speed and endurance records for women June 25, 1930 – Set women’s speed record for 100 kilometers with no load, and with a load of 500 kilograms July 5, 1930 – Set speed record of 181.18mph over a 3K course September 1930 – Helped to organize and became vice president of public relations for new airline, New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airways April 8, 1931 – set women’s autogiro altitude record with 18,415 feet (in a Pitcairn autogiro) May 20-21, 1932 – first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; 14hrs 56min; it was also the 5th anniversary of Lindberg’s Atlantic flight; awarded National Geographic Society’s gold medal from President Herbert Hoover; Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross; wrote For The Fun of It about her journey August 24-25, 1932 – First woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast; set woman’s nonstop transcontinental speed record, flying 2,447.8 miles in 19hrs 5min Fall 1932 – Elected president of the Ninety Nines, a new women’s aviation club which she helped to form July 7 -8, 1933 – Broke her previous transcontinental speed record by making the same flight in 17hrs 7min January 11, 1935 – First person to solo the 2,408 -mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland, California; also first flight where a civilian aircraft carried a two-way radio April 19-20, 1935 – First person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City; 13 hrs 23min May 8,1935 – First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark; 14hrs 19min June 1, 1937 – Began flight around the world June 1937; first person to fly from the Red Sea to India July 2, 1937 - Earhart’s plane lost at sea
(source: http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/achievements.html )
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“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” - Amelia Earhart “More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.” - Wilbur Wright “We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.” - Lord Swinton “To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.” - Otto Lilienthal “It was quite a day. I don't know what you can say about a day when you see four beautiful sunsets. . . . This is a little unusual, I think.” - John Glenn “To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.” - anonymous “Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.”– Charles A. Lindbergh “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” - George Bernard Shaw
AVIATION DISPLAY BOOKS
PERIODICALS
The Journal of Air Traffic Control Aviation Week & Space Technology ICAO Journal Air & Space Smithsonian Business & Commercial Aviation
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Celebrating a Century of Flight NAS 1.21:2002-09-511-HQ The Wright Brothers’ Engines and Their Design SI 9.9:5 First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane I 29.9/5:159 Photographs by the Wright Brothers LC 1.2: W93
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The Road to Kitty Hawk Valerie Moolman TL515 .M63 1980 The First Aviators Curtis Prendergast TL515 .P68 1980 The Jet Age: Forty Years of Jet Aviation Walter J. Boyne and Donald S. Lopez, editors TL709 .J46 Air Travel James E. Mooney TL515 .M65 60 Years of Excellence: World Aviation Directory: A Flight Through Time, 1940-2000 TL512 .A635 2000 The Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934 - 1942. Robert J. Jakeman TL713.T87 J35 1992 Chronicle of Aviation Michael Armitage, Bill Gunston, and Peter Bently TL515 .C533 1992 The Smithsonian Book of Flight Walter J. Boyne TL515 .B665 1987 Aircraft Photo Album Peter M. Bowers and Paul R. Mott TL549 B67 v.1
Flying Smithsonian - April 2003 issue - “100 Years Ago: The Wright Brothers - How They Did It.”
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Racism and sexism were a sign of the times, but "Queen Bess" had her sights set far above the pit of prejudice. Denied access to flight instruction in America, Bessie became fluent in French and, in 1921, crossed the ocean to realize her dream. As the first African American to earn a pilot's license, she defied injustice and won. In 1995, Bessie Coleman became the eighteenth honoree in the US Postal Service's Black Heritage Stamp Series.
Source: http://www.easycart.net/WomenFlyInc./
Of Additional Interest
- U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
http://www.centennialofflight.gov
- Tuskegee Airmen
http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1129262&nav =CcXDDzLM
- Amelia Earhart http://www.ameliaearhart.com/home.php
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