Amelia Earhart is an American aviator famous for her aerial exploits. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane in 1928. The first aircraft she sees in the air, at the age of 10, is only a machine made of wood and rusty iron without interest. Ten years later, an air meeting she attended made her want to do her air-baptism in 1920. She's doing everything she can to learn how to fly. She performed her first great performance on October 22, 1922 by flying at an altitude of 4,300 metres (14,000 feet), a record for a woman at that time. In 1926, Captain Railey challenged her to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. On May 20, 1932, at the age of 34, she took off from Harbour Grace (Canada) and landed 14 hours and 56 minutes later in a field near Derry, Northern Ireland. In 1932, she became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross and the gold medal of the National Geographical Society. In 1937, she took up her greatest challenge by trying the first female world tour. On July 2, 1937, she sent an alarming message to a ship near Howland, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, before disappearing. Since the research in which President Roosevelt personally participates is unsuccessful, it was officially declared dead in 1939.
