BRITANNICA BEGINNER BIOS AMELIA EARHART AVIATION PIONEER Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES DANIEL E HARMON
WHO WAS AMELIA EARHART Many women have contributed to progress in aviation during the past century The most famous woman aviator was Amelia Earhart She achieved many firsts Earhart was the first woman Amelia Earhart poses with her Lockheed Electra the airplane in which she crashed while attempting to fly around the world in 1937 4 4 CHAPTER ONE
WHO WAS AMELIA EARHART Vocabulary AVIATION is the operation of aircraft that are heavier than air including airplanes helicopters balloons and spacecraft to fly alone or solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California California She navigated routes over land and sea that no woman had traveled before These were all amazing accomplishments for a young woman who grew up wondering what she might do with her life Her family had little money Airplanes in those years were rare and dangerous The facts that woman pilots were so uncommon and that she was so daring contributed to her enormous popularity 5
