Over the years, Kleppner has provided several interviews that offer an intimate glimpse at who Earhart was, and what she, as the niece of the great woman, thinks happened to her aunt on July 2 According to the New York Times in , Kleppner revealed her theory about what happened to Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, and said:. It seems as though Kleppner has yet to comment on the potentially credible evidence regarding Earhart's alleged survival , as investigated in the new History Channel special Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence , which could certainly change her opinion on those theories.
In that documentary, in which the now viral photo is thoroughly investigated, experts conclude that Earhart may have crashed her plane in Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and that she and Noonan were then held captive by Japanese soldiers. However a recent interview with Kleppner indicates that she may be more concerned with celebrating her iconic aunt's achievements and legacy, than demystifying her ending. She even enrolled in pre-med at Columbia University in Amelia took her first flying lessons in , and her life would never be the same.
One of Amelia's first adventures came in when she flew to an altitude of 14, feet --this was higher than a woman had ever flown. The three settled in Medford and Amelia got a job teaching English. Flying never left Amelia's mind and soon she was back at it. October 22, Amelia sets an unofficial altitude record for female pilots after flying the Canary to 14, feet.
Amelia goes to New York briefly to reenroll at Columbia, but she soon moves back to Boston where she works first as a teacher and then as a social worker at Denison House, teaching English to Syrian and Chinese immigrants. They arrive in Wales over 20 hours later and are greeted by cheering crowds.
I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes. Summer Amelia's book about the Friendship flight, 20 Hrs. Amelia teams up with publicist George Putnam to write it, and he quickly promotes her to celebrity status. She also becomes Aviation Editor for Cosmopolitan magazine.
She will become its first president in and holds that position for two years, during which time she also uses her celebrity status to promote the growth of American commercial airlines. July 5, Amelia sets the women's world flying speed record of Between and , Amelia will set seven women's speed and distance records. Wary of the institution of marriage, Amelia refused George's proposals six times before she agrees.
She departs from Newfoundland and lands in a pasture in Northern Ireland. The site of her landing in Ireland now has a small museum, the Amelia Earhart Centre. August , Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back.
Amelia sold her plane and bought a car in which she drove her mother to Boston, where her sister was teaching school. Soon after that Earhart reenrolled at Columbia University in New York City, but she lacked the money to continue for more than one year. She returned to Boston, where she became a social worker, joined the NAA, and continued to fly in her spare time. In Earhart accepted an offer to join the crew of a flight across the Atlantic.
The flight was the scheme of George Palmer Putnam, editor of WE, Charles Lindbergh's — book about how he became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic in Putnam chose her for his "Lady Lindy" because of her flying experience, her education, and her lady-like appearance. Although she never once touched the controls she described herself afterward as little more than a "sack of potatoes" , Earhart became world-renowned as "the first woman to fly the Atlantic.
From that time on Putnam became Earhart's manager and, in , her husband. He arranged all of her flying engagements, many of which were followed by difficult cross-country lecture tours at one point, twenty-nine lectures in thirty-one days staged to gain maximum publicity. Earhart became upset by reports that she was largely a puppet figure created by her publicist husband and that she was something less than a competent aviator pilot.
To prove her skills as an aviator, she piloted a tiny, single-engine Lockheed Electra from Newfoundland, Canada, to Ireland. Then, on May , , and five years after Lindbergh, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. During the five years remaining in her life, Earhart acted as a tireless champion for commercial aviation and for women's rights. The numerous flying records she set include: an altitude record in an autogiro an early aircraft, in ; the first person to fly an autogiro across the United States and back; the fastest nonstop transcontinental continent to continent flight by a woman ; breaking her own transcontinental speed record ; the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Hawaii to California ; the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico ; breaking the speed record for a nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey; and setting the speed record for the fastest east-west crossing from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii She also collected numerous awards and honors from around the world.
On July 2, , twenty-two days before her fortieth birthday and having already completed 22, miles of an attempt to fly around the world, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific somewhere between Lae, New Guinea, and Howland Island an island in the central Pacific Ocean.
The largest search ever conducted by the U. Navy for a single missing plane sighted neither plane nor crew. Later searches since that time have been equally unsuccessful. In an expedition found certain objects a shoe and a metal plate on the small atoll island of Nikumaroro south of Howland, which could have been left by Earhart and Noonan.
In another female pilot, Linda Finch, recreated Earhart's final flight in an around the world tribute entitled "World Flight
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