To begin with, she set some records that no other woman had accomplished at the time. In October of 1922, she was the first woman to fly to the altitude of 14,000 feet. Then, 6 years later, in August of 1928 she was the first woman to fly across the North American continent and back. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. She was the first person, male and female, to fly from Hawaii to the US mainland. By 1927 she had amassed about 500 unaccompanied flying hours.
Secondly she did some pretty cool things for a woman in that time period. Women weren’t allowed to do as much as men back then. She liked to play basketball, took an auto repair class and went to college for a little while. Not many women did that back then and she surely was teased for it. But she bravely did it anyway. …show more content…
She drank a cup of hot chocolate in her plane. But not on the ground. She was 8,000 feet above ground and didn’t even spill! Before that, she flew to an altitude of 18,415 feet. That’s a record that stood for many years. She had also flown over North America and back. She wanted to fly around the world, becoming the first female to do it. She got a call, asking if she wanted to fly all the way around the world. And of course, she said “Yes!” During that famous flight, she had to fly through overcast skies and intermittent storms. That was surely a scary thing to endure. And she had gotten far too! She had only 7,000 miles left until she disappeared. She went mysteriously missing, never to be seen again. Her plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July of 1937. The plane wreckage was never found. It was one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth