Purdue has an extensive collection of photos, receipts and credentials featuring Earhart's time at Purdue from 1935 until her final flight in 1937.
She was the first woman to fly solo coast to coast, fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person to fly solo from Oakland, California to Hawaii. Her list of accolades stretches high - just like the altitude, speed and distance records she broke.
Purdue University archivist Tracy Grimm says Earhart's time on campus was amazing for the students, encouraging young women to pursue their career dreams. Purdue has an extensive collection of photos, receipts and credentials featuring Earhart's time at Purdue from 1935 until her final flight in 1937.
"She was a pilot. She flew a plane," Grimm said."She was a modern woman, and so she kind of brought that a little bit of rebellion to the women students." Standing next to a statue of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart on the Purdue campus, Kelch is very aware of how a woman in the past is influencing her in the present.
The Lockheed Electra plane, which Purdue helped to purchase, became known as"The Flying Laboratory" because Purdue is a research school. Grimm says there were different experiments that Purdue wanted her to do during her ambitious solo flight around the world on"The Flying Laboratory."
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