Adventurers & Explorers Amelia Earhart







It was a long trip in tight quarters



Amelia Earhart Flies Across the Atlantic

In 1928, Amelia Earhart received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane. "The idea of just going as 'extra weight' did not appeal to me at all," she said, but she accepted the offer nonetheless. On June 17, after several delays due to bad weather, Amelia Earhart flew in a plane named Friendship with co-pilots Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and Louis "Slim" Gordon. The plane landed at Burry Port, South Wales, with just a small amount of fuel left. Today, pilots routinely cross the Atlantic in about seven hours. How long was Earhart's flight?

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