The story of Lady Lindy, the first aviator who came to the Atlantic and was attracted to fly to the world

Amelia Mary Earhart born with the same name as her mother in Atchinson, Kansas, on July 24, 1897, her first year of life transcending sin without interruption, due to her abusive mother. It was a federal game of the United States because it had a more favorable economic situation.

When he was only 8 years old, Amelia was able to fight with her father, Samuel Earhartsu madre, Amelia Earhart (nacida Otis) y su hermana Muriel in the State of Iowa, where Samuel had a new job. The situation is still small, su padre cayó en el alcoholismo y fue despedidoand Amelia and her family revive a series of swimmers that conclude when to decide to abandon Samuel and fight against the shadows in Chicago, to start a new life.

Los años pasaron. Amelia and Muriel share the Toronto hacie junta, Canada, to register as volunteer nurses, targeting herid pilots in combination.

Ese hecho marcaría a Amelia de por vida.

Visit Cerpo Aéreo Real, the British air force, the idea of ​​converting a pilot into a crossbow. Fue allí cuando, dijo, terminó “Picada by the aviation gusanillo”.

On the way to the “Gran Guerra”, as it grows on the first Guerra Mundial, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, Amelia was staying with her family in California, having the presence of an aerial spectacle and the opportunity to subdue one avión y volar por primera vez. Dest desta estaba seldo, sería aviadora.

Play your first experience on an airplane, Amelia class with Neta Snook, considering one of the pioneers of female aviation yes 1922 finals buy an airplane for the “El Canario” flag and with the concurrence of the volatile 14,000 feet (4,267 meters) of height.

Salto al estrellato

In 1923 Amelia obtained her pilot license and in 1927 formed a part of the International Aeronautical Association, following the agreement as one of the staunchest aviators. It marks the hit that converts it to one leyenda de la aviation.

Aquel año, the editor George P. Putnam (posteriorly, by Amelia) recibió el encargo de la milonaria Amy Guest de organizar el first female flight over the Atlantic Ocean. The proprio’s prophecy is an aviation and aviation that has been taken seriously by the crowds that harass the traveler because of the family and the bus driver who was caught and realized.

As soon as in 1928 Amelia reconsidered her bid to take part in the pilot flight Wilmer Stultz and the mechanic Louis Gordon and his conviction the first world aviator to cruise the Atlantic. The Elegant aircraft fired a Fokker FVII as well Friendship. LIt takes 20 hours and 40 minutes to reach Trepassey Harbor, Terranova, Burry Port, Gales.

Amelia’s photos are published in the main periodicals of EEUU and all over the world. Amelia was compared to the Hollywood celebrities: rubia, alta, de cara agraciada y con rasgos de model, fue apodada como Lady Lindy and be convicted of sensation.

Un nuevo mundo para las mujeres

From their place of popularity, Amelia Earhart is seen as a company advocate for commercial aviation and promote the inclusion of women in this professional world event.

One of the most spectacular trajectories realized in 1935, between Honolulu and Oakland, California, a distance superior to the existing one between the EEUU and Europe. Fue también la primera persona en realizar exosamente esa ruta. Aquel año, también rompió a new record of cycling to be carried out on a flight of stairs between the City of Mexico and New York, less than 14 hours.

Final tragedy

In 1937 Lady Lindy decidió superarse a ella misma: make a trip to the world following the line from Ecuadorin hazerlo in short stages and traverses of the cells of the northern hemisphere, as hacerse solstice is now epoch.

Junto a su copiloto y navegante, the captain Frederick Noonancircled globally on board a Lockheed Electra 10-E twin-engine aircraft. “Nunca interrupts alguine haciendo algo that you know that can not be hacer”dijo Amelia antes de la partida.

The flight left June 1, 1937, from Miami to San Juan de Puerto Rico. From all, caricature hacia siguieron, in Venezuela, africa hacia place and Rojo sea. Continuous travel through Karachi, capital of Pakistan, Rangún, Bangkok, Singapore and Bandung.

Due to the bad climate, some airplane defects and a complication of dysentery that Amelia contraindicates are restraining the weather.

Recién el junio 27 junio parteron rumbo a Darwin, en Australia, y luego hacia Papúa Nueva Guinea, desde donde Amelia envió fotos fotos al Herald Tribune. Se la veía enferma y desmejorada. On July 2, Earhart and Noonan partnered with 7,570 liters of Howland fuel oil, sent to Australia, where the tram of the enormous traversal passed.

“KHAQQ llamando al Itasca. We owe it to us to get started, but not all … The fuel is rising… ”the latest communication from Lockheed Electra that leads to Amelia.

Now that exactly what happened to the plane, many theories speculate with the possibility that Earhart and Noonan hayan overlooked as nefragos in the Phoenix Islands had just died. But it is contradictory the official versions, which indicate that the aircraft is still being fired in the Pacific Ocean.

When the aircraft has no teeth in the last few minutes it is likely to separate. S sa se sabe que Amelia Earhart, one of the most influential women in aviation, has been unearthed from the ground phase. Lo hizo en su ley, haciendo lo que m les le gustaba y lo que fue su razón de vivir.

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