Early Life & Beginnings
She was born in this Kansas town on July 24,1897.
What is Atchison?
She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air (as a passenger) in this year.
What is 1928?
She named her first airplane this (it was bright yellow).
What is the Canary?
She and her navigator disappeared while trying to reach this tiny Pacific island.
What is Howland Island?
She was the first president of this organization for women pilots.
What are the Ninety-Nines?
A short ride with barnstormer Frank Hawks at an air show inspired her to do this.
What is learn to fly?
In 1932 she became the first woman to fly solo across this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This promoter later became her husband and managed her career.
Who is George Putnam (or George Palmer Putnam)?
Her final plane was a twin-engine Lockheed of this model.
What is the Electra (or Lockheed Electra)?
She was the first woman to receive this U.S. military medal for her 1932 flight.
What is the Distinguished Flying Cross?
As a child she was often called this because she preferred adventure over "ladylike" activities.
What is a tomboy?
In 1935 she became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to this place.
What is the U.S. mainland (or California)?
Her navigator on the 1937 around-the-world attempt was this man.
Who is Fred Noonan?
The last radio contact with her plane was received by the Coast Guard ship named this.
What is the Itasca?
She was legally declared dead in this year.
What is 1939?
In 1922 she set a women's record by flying to this altitude in feet.
What is 14,000 feet?
Her 1932 solo Atlantic flight lasted about this many hours.
What is 15 hours?
The plane she flew solo across the Atlantic in 1932 was a red Lockheed of this model.
What is the Vega?
She and her navigator took off from this New Guinea town on their final leg.
What is Lae?
She is often remembered for inspiring women to enter fields dominated by these people.
What are men?
She bought her first plane after only six months of lessons and called it this.
What is the Canary?
She completed the first solo nonstop flight by a woman across the United States in this year.
What is 1932?
The three-engine Fokker she rode across the Atlantic in 1928 was named this.
What is Friendship?
Overcast skies and inaccurate maps made celestial navigation difficult on the leg to this island.
What is Howland Island?
Despite many theories, her plane and remains have never been officially found; the search continues near this island group.
What is Howland Island (or the Phoenix Islands / Nikumaroro area)?