Amelia Earhart Disappearance - 75th Anniversary

Amelia Earhart A noted American aviation pioneer, Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records as well. During an attempt to make a flight around the globe in 1937 in her Lockheed Model 10 Electra 75 Years from Dissapearing of Aviation Pioneer plane, Earhart disappeared on July 2nd over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. Though many theories exist, there is no proof of her fate, There is no doubt, however, that the world will always remember Amelia Earhart for her courage, vision, and groundbreaking achievements, both in aviation and for women. July 1921 Bought first plane, Kinner Airster (Canary) June 17-18, 1928 First woman to fly across the Atlantic; 20hrs 40min (Fokker F7, Friendship) "Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do." May 20-21, 1928 Amelia Mary Earhart Bom: July 24, 1897 First woman to fly Birthplace: Atchison, Kansas solo across the Atlantic; 14 hrs 56 Dissapeared: July 2, 1937 min (it was also the 1st anniversary of Lindbergh's Atlantic flight) 4 June 1, 1937 Began flight around the world June 1937; first person to fly from the Red Sea to India July 2, 1937 Disappeared on July 2nd over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island Electra 10E Fred Noonan Amelia Earhart's Electra 10E Earthart's 'World Flight' Navigator (April 4, 1893 – missing July 2, 1937, declared dead June 20, 1938) was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviator who disappeared with Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during their attempted round-the-world flight The World Flight was a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner developed by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in the 1930s. The aircraft gained The jourmey was originally intended to start from California and head west across the Pacific to to fly around the world at the equator. During the first attempt, only one leg of the flight was completed from Oakland to Hawaii on 17 March 1937 when Earhart made an considerable fame as it was flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated around-the-world emergency landing due to problems with variable-pitch propellers expedition in 1937 Afterwards the Earhart and Noonan The pair departed Miami on 1 June covering some 22,000 miles (35,400 km) while making stops in South America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia before arriving at Lae, New Guinea, on 29 June. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,300 km) of the flight the flying tandem would cross the Pacific with refueling stops on tiny Howland Island and Oahu before Earhart and Noonan left Lae on the departed Oakland on 20 May 1937 for Miami where the world flight was officially announced to the public moming of 2 July headed northeast to uninhabited Howland Island where route was reversed to fly eastward and take advantage of winds expected at that time of year they were to meet US Coast Guard cutter Itasca for fuel and rest, but never arrived there retuming to Oakland Oakland Oakland Miami Karachi Calcutta San Juan Bangkok Dakar Assab Assab E Lae . Howland Natal Singapore Island Darwin Gilbert Islands Howland Island 5 Howland $4M is only 6,500 ft (2,000 m) long by 1,600 ft Papua New Guinea Equator (500 m) wide and difficult to spot from the Lae air, so Earhart and the Itasca had prearranged to communicate by radio for guidance. Unfortunately, two-way communication was never successfully established. The most accepted theory is Nikumaroro The United States govemment spent $4 million looking for Earhart, which made it the costliest (about $65 million in today's dollars) and 150E 160E 170 that Earhart ditched the Electra at sea in New Caledonia Fiji the vicinity of Howland Island most intensive air and sea search in history at the time Aviation pioneer mostly likely died on an uninhabited tropical island Nikumaroro New Evidence of Amelia A tiny coral atoll, Nikumaroro was some 300 miles Earhart's Last Days southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island 2 km A number of artifacts recovered by TIGHAR would suggest that Earhart and her In 1940., along with the woman's shoe, empty bottle and a sextant box marked by a serial number consistent with the one Noonan caried, a partial skeleton was recovered, but mysteriously vanished later, Amelia Earhart Eventually, Earhart's Small bone Abandoned on a desert island where temperatures often exceed 100 degrees, even in the shade, Earhart and Noonan most likely succumbed to any number of causes, including injury and infection, food poisoning from toxic fish, or simply dehydration mostly likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the twin-engine plane, the Electra, was pieces are the only remains of the former ripped apart by Nikumaroro's campsite largely because of southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, according to researchers at The International Group navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing strong waves and swept out into deep water, leaving no visible trace Newest mission to the the giant coconut crabs carried away on the island's smooth, flat coral reef Nikumaroro Island found several small bone pieces, this time sent for a DNA analysis. for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) other stuff. 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