The trailblazing pioneer woman aviator who lived to fly

KUALA LUMPUR: Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and writer who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean – from Canada to Northern Ireland – in 1932, which led to her being the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress after her return to the United States.

The Kansas-born woman had her first experience of the aviation industry around 1918 when she and her friend visited a fair held in Toronto, Canada.