Through hard work and devotion, Earhart was able to complete her training, and later purchased her first airplane (a “Kinner Airster”) that she nicknamed “The Canary” due to its yellow appearance. Earhart paid for the lessons by working as a filing clerk for the Los Angeles Telephone Company. In January 1921, Earhart began her lessons with a female instructor named Neta Snook. After taking her first airplane ride in 1920 with a World War One pilot named Frank Hawks, she quickly abandoned her studies in favor of flying lessons. Earhart returned to the United States after World War One ended to pursue pre-med at Columbia University.It was here that Earhart was first introduced to airplanes as she spent countless hours watching pilots from the “Royal Flying Corps” conduct training operations at the local airbase. With the outbreak of the First World War, however, Amelia began working as a nurse for the Red Cross in Toronto, Canada. Even in her youth, young Amelia often defied traditional gender roles as she not only participated in boy sports (such as basketball) but also attended college and took auto repair courses.It wasn’t until the seventh grade that Amelia was finally enrolled in public school at the age of twelve. Young Amelia, along with her younger sister, was homeschooled for much of their early life. Earhart was named after her two grandmothers (Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton) and had one younger sister by the name of Grace Muriel Earhart. Amelia Mary Earhart was born to Samuel and Amelia Earhart on 24 July 1897, in the town of Atchison, Kansas.They were never seen again.Amelia Earhart as a young girl. They set out on July 2, 1937, at 12:30 a.m., heading toward tiny Howland Island. But something happened as they crossed the Pacific Ocean. By June 29, they had made it to New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea), an island north of Australia in the Indian Ocean. On June 1, 1937, she and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Miami, Florida, in an attempt to fly 29,000 miles around the world. In fact, between 19, Earhart set at least five women's speed and distance flying records.īut Earhart wanted to do something even bigger. In 1935, she became the first person to fly solo across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans after she flew from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California. Fifteen hours later, she landed in a cow pasture in Northern Ireland and became the first woman to fly by herself across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1932, Earhart took off from Newfoundland, Canada. The next year, no one would ever think of pilots as “just men” again. Earhart wanted to change that and in 1931 became the first president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female pilots. Then, in 1923, she earned an international pilot’s license, becoming one of only 16 women in the world to have one.Īviation in the 1920s was still new-after all, the Wright brothers’ first flight had just happened in 1903-and most pilots were men.
After taking her first flight in 1920, she started working odd jobs to pay for flying lessons. Nearby were pilot practice fields, where she discovered her passion for flying. Born in Kansas on July 24, 1897, she volunteered during World War I starting in 1917, treating wounded Canadian soldiers returning from the European battlefields.
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