New Delhi: On the 115th birth anniversary of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, here we bring you what all the aviatrix achieved during her life.
Earhart was not only an aviatrix, but she was also a famous author. She was a successful and heavily promoted writer who served as aviation editor for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928 to 1930. In addition, she wrote magazine articles, newspaper columns, and also published books based on her experiences as a flyer during her lifetime.
Here goes the timeline:
July 24, 1897 - Born on July 24, 1897, Earhart, as a child, spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a .22 rifle and belly-slamming her sled downhill. Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair at the age of 10, and she was not impressed.
December 28, 1920 - Pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change her life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly."
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; 20hrs 40min (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 Women'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 for 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 woman's autogiro altitude record with 18,415 feet (in a Pitcairn autogiro)
May 20-21, 1932 - First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; 14 hrs 56 min (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 women'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 l9 - 20, 1935 - First person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City; 13hrs 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 - Amelia Earhart left with her crew member from New Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island.
January 5, 1939: Earhart was declared legally dead (dead in absentia).
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