6 Chapter 5 Amelia Becomes a Hero

Chapter 5 Amelia Becomes a Hero Amelia met with both George Putnam and Amy Guest in New York. They both thought she was perfect. Attractive. Polite. Well-educated. She got the job. The job was actually not nearly as good as it sounded. Amelia wouldn't get paid. A man named Wilmer Stultz would fly the plane. He'd get twenty thousand dollars. And although Amelia was called "the captain," she was really just a passenger.

阿米莉亚在纽约会见了乔治·普特南和艾米·盖斯特。 他们都认为她很完美。 有吸引力。有礼貌。受过良好教育的。 她得到了这份工作。这份工作实际上并不像听起来那么好。 阿米莉亚拿不到钱。一个名叫威尔默·斯图兹的人将驾驶这架飞机。 他会得到两万美元。 虽然阿米莉亚被称为“船长”，但她实际上只是一名乘客。

Why did Amelia agree? First, no woman had ever crossed the Atlantic by plane. The experience alone was enough to make Amelia go. Amelia summed up her feelings in a letter to a friend. "When a great adventure's offered you—you don't refuse it, that's all." Amelia also hoped that, if the trip were successful, all the attention could bring her other flying jobs. The flight was very dangerous. Charles Lindbergh had made the trip safely. But fourteen other people had died trying to cross the ocean. Three had been women. Still, two other women pilots were already planning to try it. Amelia had to move quickly if she wanted to be the first.

阿米莉亚为什么会同意?首先，从来没有女性乘飞机横渡大西洋。 单单这次经历就足以让阿米莉亚离开。 阿米莉亚在给朋友的一封信中总结了她的感受。 “当一个伟大的冒险出现在你面前时，你不能拒绝，仅此而已。” 阿米莉亚还希望，如果这次旅行成功了，所有的注意力都能给她带来其他飞行工作。 这次飞行非常危险。 查尔斯·林德伯格安全完成了这次旅行。 但另有14人在试图横渡大洋时丧生。 其中三人是女性。不过，另外两名女飞行员已经计划尝试一下。 阿米莉亚要想做第一个就得快点。

The plane, called the Friendship, took off from Boston on June 3, 1928. However, the crew had to land in Canada because of bad weather. Many days went by. The Friendship was still not able to take off. Amelia discovered another problem. Her pilot, Wilmer Stultz, drank too much. If Wilmer got drunk, she knew he couldn't fly the plane. But if they did not take off soon, Amelia would lose the record. It was now or never. On June 16, Amelia made a decision. She told Wilmer to get ready to fly—they were leaving the next day no matter what. On the morning of June 17 Amelia sent a cable to George Putnam back in Boston. The cable read "Violet. Cheerio! A.E." Violet was a code word. It meant that the Friendship was taking off.

这架名为“友谊”号的飞机于1928年6月3日从波士顿起飞。 然而，由于天气恶劣，机组人员不得不降落在加拿大。 许多天过去了。友谊号仍然无法起飞。 阿米莉亚发现了另一个问题。 她的飞行员威尔默·斯图尔茨(Wilmer Stultz)喝得太多。 如果威尔默喝醉了，她知道他不会开飞机。 但如果他们不尽快起飞，阿米莉亚就会失去记录。 机不可失，时不再来。6月16日，阿米莉亚做了一个决定。 她告诉威尔默准备起飞——无论如何，他们第二天就要出发了。 6月17日上午，阿米莉亚给远在波士顿的乔治·普特南发了一封电报。 电报上写着“紫罗兰”。恭喜恭喜!A.E.” 紫罗兰是个暗号。这意味着友谊号正在起飞。

Through the long flight Wilmer Stultz and his co-pilot "Slim" Gordon took turns flying the plane. Amelia wrote notes in her journal. After twenty hours of flying, they knew they were low on fuel. Could they find land in time? The answer was yes. The Friendship touched down in Burry Port, South Wales, twenty hours and forty minutes after taking off from the Canadian coast. They had done it. On June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

在漫长的飞行中，威尔默·斯图尔茨和他的副驾驶“斯利姆”·戈登轮流驾驶飞机。 阿米莉亚在日记里写笔记。 飞行了20个小时后，他们知道燃料不足了。 他们能及时找到陆地吗? 答案是肯定的。“友谊”号从加拿大海岸起飞20小时40分钟后，降落在南威尔士的巴里港。 他们做到了。1928年6月18日，阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特成为第一位飞越大西洋的女性。

What came next was a surprise for Amelia. The trip made her an instant hero. Amelia hadn't flown the plane. But people still thought she was very brave. In London, Amelia was entertained by the rich and famous. She had tea with royalty. On her return to America, Amelia was met with even greater excitement. There were parades and speeches. Crowds of people wanted to see and hear the brave female. Many people compared Amelia Earhart to the famous pilot, Charles Lindbergh. They thought that Amelia, who was tall and slim, even looked like Lindbergh. Amelia's nickname became "Lady Lindy." George

接下来发生的事让艾米莉亚大吃一惊。 这次旅行使她瞬间成为英雄。 阿米莉亚没有开过飞机。 但是人们仍然认为她很勇敢。 在伦敦，阿米莉亚受到富人和名人的款待。 她和王室成员一起喝茶。回到美国后，阿米莉亚受到了更大的兴奋。 游行和演讲。 成群的人想要一睹这只勇敢的雌熊的风采。 许多人把阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特比作著名的飞行员查尔斯·林德伯格。 他们认为身材修长的阿米莉亚甚至长得像林德伯格。 阿米莉亚的昵称变成了“林迪夫人”。 乔治