Amelia Rose Earhart

Amelia Rose Earhart

Earhart smiling to the camera

Amelia Rose Earhart
Born (1983-01-18) January 18, 1983[1]
Downey, California, United States
Nationality American
Aviation career
Known for Completed a global circumnavigation in a single engine aircraft - Traffic and weather news anchor for NBC
First flight June 2, 2004
Famous flights Global Circumnavigation Flight June 26 – July 11, 2014
Website
www.flywithamelia.org

Amelia Rose Earhart (born 1983, Downey, California[2]) is a private pilot and traffic and weather news presenter for NBC affiliate[3] in Denver, Colorado, where she resides. In 2013 Earhart started the Fly With Amelia Foundation, which grants flight scholarships to girls aged 16–18.[4]

Earhart was told by family members in her youth that she was a descendant of Amelia Mary Earhart.[5] When she was in college, she hired a genealogist to research her connection to Amelia Earhart. That genealogist told her that she and Amelia shared a "distant common ancestry traced back to the 1700s", however a second genealogical search in 2013 found there was no traceable connection.[6][7][8][9]

Earhart took her first flying lesson on June 2, 2004, and obtained her private pilot licence in a Cessna 172. In 2012, she recreated her namesake's transcontinental flight from Oakland, California to Miami, Florida in a Cirrus SR22, as a completion of her instrument training hours.[10]

In July 2013 she was awarded the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award by the Atchison, Kansas Chamber of Commerce. The award is given to the woman who carries on Amelia Earhart's spirit.[11]

In partnership with Denver’s Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Earhart completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a single-engine airplane with her copilot, Shane Jordan.[12][13][14] Her route was to fly across the US, then south into the Caribbean, northeast Brazil, the South Atlantic Ocean, then the African continent, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Ocean before returning to California.[15] Earhart and Jordan started the global circumnavigation flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland without incident on July 11, 2014.[16][17][18][19][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Although widely reported (and claiming)[26] to have become the youngest woman to fly around the world, she is in fact the second youngest behind Richarda Morrow-Tait, who was also the first woman to pilot a plane around the globe.[27]

On July 9, 2014 as she and her mentor pilot were flying over Howland Island she announced, via Twitter, the names of the first recipients of the Fly With Amelia foundation flight training scholarships.[28][29][26][30]

References

  1. ↑ Amelia Rose Earhart at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ "The Amelia Project". Flywithamelia.org. 2004-06-02. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  3. ↑ "Traffic and Weather Reporter Amelia Earhart leaving 9NEWS, decides to chase her aviation dreams" 9NEWS
  4. ↑ Earhart, Amelia Rose (n.d.). "Foundation". The Amelia Project. Flywithamelia.org. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  5. ↑ Larry Copeland (2013-07-31). "TV anchor, namesake to re-create Amelia Earhart flight". usatoday.com. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  6. ↑ Earhart, Amelia Rose (15 June 2014). "The Mission". flywithamelia.org. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Linda Carroll (2013-08-12). "Modern-day Amelia Earhart not related to famous aviator". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  8. ↑ "Debrief / Amelia Rose Earhart - Flight Training". Flighttraining.aopa.org. 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  9. ↑ The Amelia Project (July 31, 2013). "Amelia Rose Earhart Takes Flight; Announces Plans to Retrace Namesake's Legendary Around-the-World Adventure". Finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  10. ↑ Grady, Mary (December 21, 2011). "Amelia Earhart Flies A Cirrus". Avweb.com. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  11. ↑ "Today's Pioneers". Atchison Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  12. ↑ Nina Bahadur (January 29, 2014). "Meet Amelia Rose Earhart, The Woman Flying Around The World In 17 Days". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  13. ↑ Earhart, Amelia Rose (n.d.). "Amelia Rose Earhart Takes Flight; Announces Plans to Retrace Namesake's Legendary Around the World Adventure" (PDF). flywithalelia.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  14. ↑ Griggs, Mary Beth, "Another Amelia Earhart is Trying to Fly Around the World" Smithsonian Magazine, June 20, 2014, retrieved June 21, 2014
  15. ↑ Nichols, Steve (May 21, 2014), EBACE 2014: Connectivity to help relay Amelia Earhart’s flight, Get Connected retrieved June 21, 2014
  16. ↑ Golgowski, Nina (June 19, 2014). "Amelia Earhart's namesake to attempt legendary pilot's flight around the world". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
  17. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions and Facts - The Amelia Project". Ameliaearhartproject.com. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
  18. ↑ "Modern-Day Amelia Earhart Sets Off to Circle the Globe". NBC News. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
  19. 1 2 N58NG, FlightAware
  20. ↑ Joshua Hubbard (June 25, 2014). "Amelia Earhart to start global flight on Thursday". 9news.com. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  21. ↑ "Amelia Rose Earhart". Facebook. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  22. ↑ Silva, Shayla (3 July 2014), Pilot Named Amelia Earhart Flies Around the World in Honorary Flight, Flying Magazine, retrieved 4 July 2014.
  23. ↑ Amelia Earhart Queen of the skies on Australian "Today" show
  24. ↑ Lee, Henry K. "Amelia Rose Earhart completes round-the-world flight - SFGate Blog". Blog.sfgate.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  25. ↑ "Woman named after aviation pioneer retraces flight | More Local News - KITV Home". Kitv.com. 2014-07-03. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  26. 1 2 "Amelia Rose Earhart Completes Namesake's Around-the-World Flight" (Interview). Fox News Insider. 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  27. ↑ Stinson, Patrick M. (2011). Around-the-World Flights: A History. McFarland. pp. 185–7. ISBN 0786462825. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  28. ↑ "Amelia Earhart (Amelia__Earhart) on Twitter". Twitter.com. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  29. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/ameliaroseearhart| Amelia Rose Earhart Facebook page
  30. ↑ Gebreyes, Rahel (July 15, 2014), How Pilot Amelia Rose Earhart Is Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling Of Aviation, HuffPost Live, retrieved 2014-07-16

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