Amelia Earhart

Amelia as a little girl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart)

A hero to me is someone who has made an impact on the world or other people. A hero to me is also someone who puts his or her mind to something big, tries to do it and is proud, even if it doesn’t completely work. Amelia Earhart was the first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic. Amelia tried to fly across the Atlantic but didn’t make it back, and no one knows what happened?

When Amelia was a little girl she liked to climb trees, she was more like a tomboy rather than a young lady. She lived in Kansas as a child. Amelia crashed near Howland in 1937. She was near her 40th birthday on July 2, 1937 and declared dead on January 5th 1939.

Amelia and her plane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_earhart)

When she took her first flight with Frank Hawks she said, “I knew myself, I had to fly”. Later she asked Neta Snook for private lessons. After Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia got a call from Captain Hilton. Captain Hilton asked her “Would you like to fly across the Atlantic?” Obviously she took the offer, not just across the Atlantic but around the world. On May 20th 1932, she started her flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. (With a nonstop flight across the Atlantic)

Amelia got as far as Howland Island, a few miles way from Hawaii, on her way back from going around the world. On her approach to land, her radio stopped working. She tried to call in, but it didn’t work it stopped completely. No calls in, Amelia and her plane are gone, people searched for her they didn’t find her or the plane. No one knows what happened to her, some people think she may have been attack by Japanese.

Amelia is a hero because she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first person to fly from California to Hawaii. Before she left Amelia said: “Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others”.