- Amelia Earhart, a pioneer and exceptional woman
2- Amelia Earhart, an aviation pioneer
Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhɑːrt/; July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. In 1935 Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
During an attempt to make a flight around the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.
Amelia in her pilot gear
3- Amelia EARHART
By Elisabeth Désormeaux, Annabelle Hennu, Jade Chevigny, Gaëlle Péchoux
1.Childhood
Amelia Mary Earhart was born in Atchison (Kansas) in the home of her maternal grandfather the 24th July 1897.
Second daughter of the family, Amelia was raised as a tomboy. She enjoyed climbing trees and hunting rats. Very early, she had a taste for adventure.
At the age of 10 her father took her to a fair where she could see her first aircraft.
2.Education
While Amelia’s parents moved to Des Moines, she and her sister remained with their grandparents and were taught at home by a governess. Amelia was very fond of reading.
When the family was reunited in Des Moines, Amelia went to a public school for the first time and entered the 7th grade at the age of 12 in 1909.
3. Family fortunes
Because of several misfortunes- the father’s alcoholism, the death of the grandmother-, the family house was auctioned in 1914, which caused Amelia a great pain.
Amelia Earhart graduated from Chicago’s Hyde Park High School in 1916.
Throughout her childhood, she kept a scrapbook about women who had succeeded in a male-oriented career.
She started a Junior college program in Pennsylvania but never completed it.
After a visit to her sister in Toronto in 1914, Amelia saw the wounded soldiers who were returning and decided to help. After receiving training, she worked in a military hospital as a nurse.
4.Early flying experience
In 1918, Amelia Earhart enrolled at Columbia University but
she quit a year later to be with her parents who now lived in California.
On December 1920, she visited an airfield where Frank Hawks ( an air racer) gave her a ride: that would forever change Earhart’s life.
After 10 minutes flight she immediately became determined to learn to fly.
On May 15, 1923 she became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot’s
license.
Drawing by : Annabelle Hennu
4- Amelia Earhart :aviation career
By Darley Gatien, Clair Paul, Bergerot Vincent and Thiebault Damien.
In 1920 she did her first flight and with this she became crazy about aviation. Later, in 1922, she broke a record because she flew to an altitude of 4300 m. In 1923 there were just sixteen women who had a pilot license.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh broke a very famous record: he was the 1st person who flew across the Atlantic. As Amelia heard this, she wanted to be the 1st woman to equal him.
In 1928, she broke a new record flying across the Atlantic because she arrived to America, but she was not the pilot: just a passenger.
How frustrating!
Before her, five women had tried to fly across the Atlantic…
All died in their attempt.
After that, in 1931 she broke a new record of altitude (5613 m).
In 1932 she tried same flight as in 1928 but this time…alone!
It was a success and she became the 1st woman who flew across the Atlantic. This project was financed by many celebrities.
In 1937, as she had started her round-the-world flight she crashed with the aviator Noonan, her co-pilot.
5- In front of her plane
6- Having fun flying
7- She did it !!!
8- Enjoy this video
What the video tells us
June 1st 1937 : Amelia Earhart jolted and bounced her Electra into a bright Florida sky setting on on a first daring attempt to fly around the world
In 1928 she became the 1st woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger
4 years later, determined to achieve distinction in her own right she became the 1st woman to pilot herself across solo
That made her the 1st aviator to equal Lindbergh daring feat.
By the time she departed on her round-the-world effort she’d become a friend of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an inspiration to millions of American women.
On July 2nd 1937, 22000 miles into the journey
Earhart took off, heading for Howland Island, a mile long dot in the Pacific.
With Earhart overdue the coastguard on task listened helplessly to her request for a fix on her position
She flew on unable to hear their replies
Running low on fuel
No trace of the plane or of its passengers has ever been found
What the video tells us in French
1er juin 1937 : Amelia Earhart s’élança dans un ciel clair et dégagé de Floride tentant ainsi son intrépide tour du monde en avion.
En 1928, elle devint la 1ère femme qui traversa l’Atlantique en avion en tant que passagère.
4 ans plus tard, en 1932, bien déterminée à s’attirer les mérites de cette traversée elle-même, elle devint la 1ère femme qui traversa l’Atlantique, seule aux commandes de son appareil.
Elle devint ainsi la 1ère aviatrice à égaler l’incroyable exploit de Lindbergh.
Elle se lia d’amitié avec la 1ère dame Eleanor Roosevelt et inspira des millions de femmes américaines.
Le 2 juillet 1937, après avoir déjà parcouru 22000 miles dans ce tour du monde, elle s’envola pour l’Ile de Howland un petit point de 1 mile de long au milieu de l’océan Pacifique.
Earhart en retard, les garde-côtes écoutèrent impuissants ses appels leur demandant de lui indiquer sa position.
Elle continua à voler, incapable d’entendre leur réponse commençant à manquer de carburant.
Aucune trace de son appareil ou de ses passagers n’a jamais été trouvée
9- Amelia Earhart,
Moving to California
By Marie Thibaudet, Amélie Sèvre, Florian Borgognio and Gabriela Morgado
While Amelia Earhart was on a speaking tour in 1934, the fire broke out at the Putnam residence in Rye, a small city in the United Kingdom where she and her British husband lived.
All her « family mementos » personal belongings and souvenirs were destroyed.
At that moment she decided to go to California on the American West Coast. Putman, her husband, worked as head of the editorial board of Paramount Pictures. She quickly contacted a Hollywood stunt pilot, Paul Mantz, to improve her flying and make her capacities and abilities for her long-distance flights better.
In September 1935, Mantz and Earhart launched a business partnership. They founded an aviation school.
At the Mantz Aviation Company she learned and prepared her new project: A flight around the world.
10- Above the Golden Gate
11 -Amelia Earhart
By Camille Menuel, Baptiste Gomez, Marine Simonot and Hugo Mouchir
In 1932, she decided to fly across the Atlantic all alone. And she did it!!! She was the first woman who flew the Atlantic solo. She didn’t stop there but kept on preparing new incredible and amazing challenges. Among which a round-the-world flight.
She was also the first person to fly solo from Honolulu in Hawaii to California. Earhart again participated in long-distance air-racing. Between 1930 and 1935, she established seven women's records of aviation of speed and distance.
She received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from president Hoover.
12- Amelia Earhart's round-the-world and last journey 1937
By Nectoux Juliette /Joureau Ambre/Bouriot Léa/Victor Angélique
First attempt :
On March 17th 1937, Amelia Earhart and her crew started their journey from Oakland 
but because of mechanical problems on the plane, they had to stop, the flight was cancelled.
Second attempt :
On June 1st 1937, Amelia and her co-pilot Fred Noonan took a new start from Florida.
Radio signals :
While the plane was approaching Howland Island, a small island in the Pacific, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan lost contact. They called many times but were unable to hear the coast guards for a fix on their position.
They finally ran low on fuel and crashed.
Search efforts:
Researches were undertaken until 19 July 1937 but because they were too costly stopped.
Amelia Earhart was declared dead January 5th 1939.
13- Amelia's records and legacy
By Ingrid TURNER, Eloïse REMY, Côme NOTTARIS, Ludovic BERNARD, Manon FAUCHIER
Among her most famous records
· Amelia got the woman’s world record altitude of 14000 feet (about 4300 meters) in 1922
· She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean in 1928
· She reached the speed record of 100 km/h in 1931
· She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo in 1932
· She was the first woman who received the Distinguished Flying cross in 1932
Legacy
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During her lifetime, she was an international celebrity
· Thanks to her charismatic appeal, coolness and courage she became famous in popular culture.
· Amelia inspired generations of female aviators, including more 1000 woman pilots in the “Woman’s Airforce Service Pilots” that helped in the Second World War
· She wrote three books, “The Fun of it”(1933), “Last flight”(1937), “20 Hrs., 40 min.”(1928).
· A museum is dedicated to her. The “Amelia Earheart Birthplace museum” that was founded where she was born
14 -Theory of disappearance of Amelia Earhart
By Pierre Henry-Hobbels, Younes Touta,Anthony Thomas-Repiquet and Thiphaine Micheluzzi
There were many theories and speculations about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
The most relevant theory and what really happened is that:
The “Electra”, Amelia’s plane, unable to get a position, got lost, ran out of fuel and crashed near Howland Island in the Pacific.
It is true that no trace of the plane or of its passengers has ever been found.
Of course, as for every Myth, other theories (all very far-fetched –not to say wacky- were mentioned)
For instance:
Amelia was captured by Japanese forces or Amelia may have turned back mid flight, moved to New Jersey and changed her name!
The mystery continues, so does the imagination of people.
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