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00:00You want to put mayonnaise on your hot dog?
00:06Oh, okay.
00:07Be my guest.
00:08Whoa!
00:09What the heck was that?
00:14Is that Cassian Reef?
00:17Not funny!
00:21Dear Tim and Moby, can you tell me about Amelia Earhart from Angela?
00:27Thanks for the question, but next time, please just mail it to us.
00:31Anyway, Amelia Earhart was a famous aviator or airplane pilot during the first half of
00:36the 20th century.
00:38Well, back then, women were often thought of as homemakers and not much else.
00:43But Amelia Earhart dedicated her life to proving that women could do anything that men could.
00:49She was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897.
00:53As a child, she loved climbing trees, collecting bugs, and hunting rats with a rifle.
00:57She was known for her fearlessness.
01:00After taking a brief airplane trip as a young woman, she decided that flying was her destiny.
01:06She bought a bright yellow biplane and started taking lessons.
01:10In 1922, Earhart flew to a height of 14,000 feet, setting a world record for female pilots.
01:17And a year later, she became only the 16th woman in the world to get her pilot's license.
01:22I'm glad you asked, Moby.
01:24Amelia Earhart lived during what's called the Golden Age of Aviation.
01:29Aircraft technology was improving fast.
01:31New records were constantly being set.
01:33But flying wasn't like it is today.
01:36The big passenger planes we're all familiar with hadn't been invented yet, and flying
01:40was still pretty dangerous.
01:42As a result, pilots were viewed as courageous, death-defying heroes.
01:47So when Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927,
01:51he instantly became one of the most famous people in the world.
01:55Well, like I said, there was a common misconception at the time that women were too delicate for
02:00this kind of adventure.
02:02But Earhart proved them all wrong.
02:05A year after Lindbergh's flight, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
02:09Ocean.
02:11Although she was only a passenger, she was given a ticker-tape parade and a reception
02:14at the White House when she returned to America.
02:17Well, Amelia wasn't content with her feat.
02:19She wanted to do something even more special.
02:22So in 1932, she flew across the Atlantic again, this time all by herself.
02:27She was the first person after Lindbergh to do this, and it made her one of the most famous
02:31women in the world.
02:32But she didn't stop there.
02:35Earhart wrote two books about her adventures, traveled the country delivering lectures,
02:38and helped found an organization for female pilots.
02:41They were called the 99s.
02:44She was named vice president of the National Aeronautic Association and joined the faculty
02:48of Purdue University.
02:51She even helped design and endorse her own line of women's clothing.
02:55And she kept setting records in her plane.
02:58She became the first woman to make a round-trip solo flight across the United States, the
03:02first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California, the first person to fly solo from Mexico City
03:07to the East Coast...
03:08Okay, okay, you get the idea.
03:11Anyway, in 1937, Earhart embarked on her most daring mission yet.
03:15She decided to fly around the entire globe along the equator.
03:19Unfortunately, she didn't make it.
03:21On July 2nd, after she'd already gone three quarters of the way around, her plane disappeared
03:26over the Pacific Ocean.
03:28Well, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard spent weeks looking for any sign of her plane, but
03:33they couldn't find a thing.
03:36No one knows for sure what happened to her, but most people believe she ran out of fuel,
03:39crashed, and died.
03:41Still, Amelia Earhart will always be remembered for being a true pioneer.