Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
“There is nothing special about flying around the world,” George Putnam told his wife Amelia. “People have already done it” (Earhart 73).“Yes,” Amelia replied, “but nobody has ever done it at the Equator, where the distance around the earth is the greatest” (Earhart 73). On June 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed Miami, Florida bound for California by traveling around the world. The first destination was San Juan, Puerto Rico. From there they would go to the northeast edge of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa and the Red Sea. The flight to Karachi (then part of India) was another first—no one had ever flown non-stop from the Red Sea to India before. From Karachi the Lockheed Electra flew to Calcutta on June 17. From there, they flew on
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Approximate Word count = 558
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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