Question

What is amelia earhearts motivation?

Answer 1

Since her ill-fated voyage, when Earhart’s plane, the Electra, which had also been carrying her navigator, went down somewhere near Howland Island on 2 July 1937, the world has been fascinated by this aviation trailblazer and many attempts have been made to find the wreckage of the aircraft. Just today, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) conceded that its US$2.2m expedition to get images of the wreckage of the Electra aircraft has been unsuccessful. “We are, of course, disappointed that we did not make a dramatic and conclusive discovery, but we are undaunted in our commitment to keep searching out and assembling the pieces of the Earhart puzzle," the group confirmed yesterday. Google has revered Earhart today with a stylish Doodle that depicts the aviator sitting on a plane that has been ‘Googleised’. But what do we know of the woman who made the first female solo voyage over the Atlantic Ocean in 1932? According to the U.S Centennial of Flight Commission, it was Earhart’s parents who encouraged her to engage in activities such as fishing, football and baseball. It seems that an event at an airshow in Los Angeles in 1920 was to really inspire her aviation career. At that airshow, the story goes that Earhart’s father paid the acclaimed aviator Frank Hawks US$10 to take her on her first flight, a 10-minute jaunt. Earhart, who was 23 at the time, was reported as saying: "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground I knew I had to fly."