She was also integral to the formation of The Ninety Nines, which was a female-pilot organization.
Amelia Earhart is the famous American aviator and author. The first woman to be a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly over the Atlantic Ocean solo. She was also integral to the formation of The Ninety Nines, which was a female-pilot organization. In 1935, the female aviator became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University’s aviation department. It was in 1937, while attempting to succeed at a circumnavigation flight of the world in a Purdue-funded plane, that Earhart mysteriously vanished from the face of the Earth near Howard Island, over the Pacific Ocean.