On July 24, 1897, he was born in Atkinson, Kansas Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone. From an early age she had shown that she was excited to discover new and strange things.

Instead of playing with her friends, Amelia preferred to collect insects, make puzzles and climb trees. At the age of 7, the still quite young but adventurous Amelia made her first, truly amateur flight. She entered a wooden box, climbed the ramp she had made herself and “took off”. The landing may have found her bruised and visibly bruised, but her pride had been lifted briefly into the skies, where she hoped to one day reach.

Indeed, 16 years later, Amelia Earhart was ready to take off for good this time and make history. Her interest in flying began to be born during the First World War, when she left college to work in a Canadian military hospital, where she came into contact with several aviators and above all what she would do for the rest of her, unfortunately short, life.

In addition to her passion for flying, Erhardt was also very active in women’s rights. Having herself experienced marginalization in her profession, simply because she was a woman, she knew the difficulties but also the obstacles that could arise for a woman in any profession that society considered purely male. Thus, she constantly wrote articles, emphasizing that women can achieve anything and that there should be no gender restrictions in professions, helping thousands of women to follow their dreams.

Amelia Earhart’s first record

After the war, specifically in 1920, Earhart finally took her first plane ride, realizing that her love of flight was not just a passing interest. Her passion for airplanes and flying gradually peaked and on her 25th birthday, Amelia Earhart bought a Kinner Airster. With the Canary, as she called it, she managed to fly so high that she set a record, as she had reached 14,000 feet, something no woman had achieved before.

Earhart’s life changed radically in 1928, when he met publisher George Putnam. Her later husband had aimed to introduce the general public to the world of intercontinental flights. Already in 1927, Charles Lindbergh had managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone by plane and attracted a lot of attention, but no woman had yet attempted it.

Putnam then convinced Amelia to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger, but it was not this flight that left her name indelible in history, even if the media was already talking about the fearless woman who traveled over the Atlantic Ocean.

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