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Women’s Day: Amelia Earhart’s letter to President Roosevelt on her “global flight”

It was November 1936 when the Amelia Earhart, a pioneer of flights and an advocate of women’s rights, at a time when even in America women did not dare to wear pants, wrote a letter addressed to US President Franklin Roosevelt.

“Mr President, I told you and Mrs Roosevelt a little while ago about my confidential plans for a global flight. “Now I have an amazing twin-engine metal plane, specially equipped for long-haul flights,” he said.

“I have been preparing for a flight for a few months now, which I will probably dare in March. The route related to the previous flights will be unique. “Like the previous flights, I take on the project solely because I want to, and because I feel that women now and then have things to do, to show what women can do,” she said, according to the Athens News Agency.

Her correspondence aviation champion Amelia Earhart, to the then US President Franklin Roosevelt, which is kept in the US national archives, and presents the APE-MPE, acquires special significance today, eighty-four years after its mysterious loss on July 2, 1937, when its twin-engine metal plane a ” Lockheed Electra “was lost in the North Pacific Ocean, as the forty-year-old American was attempting the last leg of her flight with intermediate stops around the Earth. She wanted to inspire other women to dare like her not only in a purely male-dominated environment like that of aviation, but also in all areas of human activity.

Before she attempted such an endeavor, she had broken many records, which still scare her today, as she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo without stopping, and twice, the first woman to fly non-stop, from one shore. in the other, across the United States, the first to break the 14,000-foot women’s world altitude record, a feat for airplanes of the 1920s, and the first man to fly solo across the Pacific between Honolulu and Auckland in 1935 , as well as the first man to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City.

Her last achievement before her loss was the speed record on the first leg of the fatal flight from east to west, from Auckland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1937.

But the comparisons with today and the pandemic are also impressive. She had become seriously ill with pneumonia from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 in Toronto, doing her job as a nurse caring for soldiers who had returned from his fronts. World War I.. In fact, that pandemic had left her with a remnant of a maxillary sinusitis, which caused them headaches for several years after as a pilot.

With her independent spirit, her daring character, and her desire to open new horizons not only for women, she is considered not only a pioneer of flights but also of feminism.

The Ninety-Nine Club, an international women’s pilot organization she founded, still exists today, and aims to provide mutual support to women pilots, and many female pilots honor her memory, reviving her epic airline from time to time. journey, what cost her her own life.

Photo source: Athenian News Agency

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