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Amelia Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, a military award for heroism or extraordinary achievement in aerial flight. In 1937, Earhart attempted to become the first person to fly around the world along the equator, a distance of about 29,000 miles. She flew a Lockheed Electra 10E, a twin-engine aircraft, with Fred Noonan, a navigator and a former Pan American Airways pilot.
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