American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)
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She vanished over the Pacific in 1937 trying to fly around the world, and the mystery of what happened has outlived nearly everything else about early aviation. The disappearance made her immortal.
Born July 24, 1897, Amelia Earhart flew as a passenger across the Atlantic in 1928 — the first woman to make the crossing by air. Four years later, in 1932, she did it alone, nonstop, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross and a claim no one could take. She wrote best-sellers about flying, promoted commercial aviation when it was still a gamble, and helped found the Ninety-Nines for female pilots. On July 2, 1937, somewhere over the Pacific on an attempt to circle the globe, her plane went silent. She was declared dead in 1939, but the search never really stopped.
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I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion?
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.
I understood. I was a girl-a "nervous lady." I might jump out. There had to be somebody on hand to grab my ankle as I went over.
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