MY FAVORITE AMERICAN

My Favorite American



My Favorite American

The great American aviator, Amelia Earhart is my favorite American personality. She is regarded as the world's most famous woman aviator and the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. She was also a tireless and effective advocate of commercial aviation and equal rights for women. Amelia Earhart was born July on 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas and became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air in 1928, though she was actually a mere passenger while two men acted as a pilot and mechanic. She toured US lecturing on ...