Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday: Top 10 interesting facts

New Delhi: In a bid to honour Amelia Earhart - the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean - on her 115th birth anniversary, Google has today put up a doodle on its homepage that features Earhart climbing up the aircraft "Lockheed 5B Vega," which she used to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. The Google letters take the place of the original registration number of the Lockheed Vega 5b - NR-7952 - painted below the wings of the aircraft.

Here are top 10 interesting facts about Amelia Earhart and her life that we all should know.

1. Despite having to attend six different high schools, Amelia Earhart was able to graduate on time.

Baby picture of pilot Amelia Earhart in Indianapolis. Earhart (1898-1937) disappeared without trace over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
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Baby picture of pilot Amelia Earhart with a dog, her toy sled, and a friend in Kansas City.
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Photo of pilot Amelia Earhart standing by her plane.
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Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928 in front of her bi-plane called "Friendship" in Newfoundland.
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An undated file photo shows American aviatrix Amelia Earhart. A $2.2 million expedition is hoping to finally solve one of America's most enduring mysteries. What happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart when she went missing over the South Pacific 75 years ago?
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Aviatrix Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) in Newfoundland. Noted for her flights across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Earhart disappeared without trace in her attempt to fly around the world.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) (centre) is surrounded by a crowd of wellwishers and pressmen on arrival at Hanworth airfield after crossing the Atlantic. She is being congratulated on her flight in a Lockeed Vega by Andrew Mellon, US ambassador to Britain.
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June 12, 1932: American aviator, Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) during a visit to Brussels.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937), the first woman to fly the Atlantic, demonstrates her route for the camera.
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American female aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) poses for a portrait on May 25, 1932. Born in Kansas, Earhart was the first woman to fly an airplane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) an American pilot, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, seen here in the cockpit of her plane.
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American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) in the cockpit of her aeroplane at Culmore, near Derry, Ireland, after her solo Atlantic flight.
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The Lockheed Electra 'Flying Laboratory', piloted by American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) and Fred Noonan flies over the Golden Gate bridge in Oakland, California, at the start of a planned round-the-world flight, March 17, 1924. The trip had to be abandoned after the plane crashed on take off in Hawaii. A subsequent attempt ended when the aviators went missing in the Pacific and the pair were eventually presumed dead.
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May 24, 1932: American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (1898-1937), in Culmore near Derry city, with the Gallagher family in whose field she landed after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
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May 22, 1932: American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) arriving in London having become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.
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June 20, 1928: American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898-1937), noted for her flights across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, with her pilot Captain A N White at Northolt, London.
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In a March 10, 1937 file photo American aviatrix Amelia Earhart waves from the Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, on March 10, 1937.
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In a 1937 file photo aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, pose in front of their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles prior to their historic flight in which Earhart was attempting to become first female pilot to circle the globe.
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$Amelia Earhart\'s 115th birthday: Top 10 interesting facts$

Here are top 10 interesting facts about Amelia Earhart and her life that we all should know.

2. Earhart was called "Lady Lindy" because her slim build and facial features resembled that of Charles Lindbergh, who was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.

3. She developed a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, who wanted to learn how to fly. Earhart had planned to teach her, for which the First Lady even got her student permit.

4. In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, flying a Lockheed 5B Vega. On January 11, 1935, she became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

5. Earhart had such an impression on public that people often wrote and told her about naming babies, lakes and even homing pigeons "Amelia."

6. She was the 16th woman to receive a pilot's license from the FAI (License No. 6017).

7. Earhart was not only an aviatrix, but she was also a famous author. She was a successful and heavily promoted writer who served as aviation editor for Cosmopolitan magazine from 1928 to 1930. In addition, she wrote magazine articles, newspaper columns, and also published books based on her experiences as a flyer during her lifetime.

8. Earhart, as a child, spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a .22 rifle and belly-slamming her sled downhill.

9. Earhart met Orville Wright at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1937, the same year she disappeared.

10. The United States government spent $4 million looking for Earhart, which made it the most costly and intensive air and sea search in history at that time. Earhart was declared legally dead (dead in absentia) on January 5, 1939.