Presentation given by Carmen Menéndez , student at the EOI Avilés .

1. By Carmen Menéndez NB EOI Avilés

2. Amelia Earth was born on July
24, 1897 in Kansas (E.E.U.U.).
She worked as a nursing assistant in
the hospital of Canada during the
Second World War.
Amelia received her first class of
aviation from Anita “Neta” Snook.
In 1921 ,she bought her first
airplane, called “Canary”, and wiht it she
went beyond a height of 4270 metres.

3. In 1923 she got her pilot license
of International Aeronautic
Federation, she was the 16 th
woman who got the license.
In 1929 she founded an
organization of women aviators
called “Ninety Nines” (International
Organization of Women Pilots), today
in force.

4. She was the first woman that
crossed the Atlantic Ocean; she
made a transatlantic flight from
Terranova to Gales, with three
people more: George
P.Putnam, Wilmer B. Stultz and Louis
E. Gordon. This way, after 21 hours
of piloting, she was proclaimed the
first woman that did it.
She was married with G.
Putnam, he was the publicist who
accompanied her in her first trip.

5. Together they planned another
trip more ambitious: to be the
second woman that crossed the
Atlantic Ocean alone.
In 1932 she had to do an
emergency landing on farm of
Ireland.
The U.S. government awarded her
the golden medal of the National
Geographic Society and the
Distinguished Flying Cross.

6. In 1937 Amelia was 40 years old ;
she raised one last challenge: Being
the first woman to fly around the
world.
17 March, 1937 she started the
first stage of trip from Oakland,
California, to Hawaii, with two more
people Fred Nooan and Harry
Manning but when they were taking
off near Pearl Harbor they had
problems, and the flight had to be
cancelled. Her airplane “Electra” has
to be sent to California to repair it.
She decided to fly to the East only
with F. Noonan.

7. 21 May, 1937 Amelia headed from Los
Angeles to Florida
1 Jun, 1937 both Nooan and Amelia took
off from Miami and one month later they
were in the island Howland in the Pacific
Ocean, the third stage of her challenge.
But her airplane never arrived in the island.
Her body was never found nor her
airplane, so there are a lot of theories
about her missing and some even talk of
conspiracy.
The official version of EEUU is that Amelia
and Nooan were out of fuel and crashed in
the middle of the ocean.
Her disappearance remains a mystery