Amelia Earhart - Women in Aviation and Space History

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Audience/Grade:	College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s):	Aerospace Engineering History of Science and Technology
Learning Resource Type:	Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:	WWW
Author(s):	National Air and Space Museum - NASM
Description:	Biography from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "Amelia Earhart is probably the most famous female aviator in history. Her own nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20-21, 1932, the first for a woman, in the bright red Lockheed Vega 5B (located in the Pioneers of Flight gallery) established her reputation as a great female pilot. Other record flights include: the first solo transcontinental flight by a woman from Los Angeles to Newark in 1932, the first solo flight by anyone from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland in 1935, the first nonstop flight from Mexico City to Newark in May 1935, and the first altitude record in the Pitcairn Autogiro."
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Keywords:	Amelia Earhart, Women in aviation, gender equity
Is Component of	Women in Aviation and Space History