Amelia Earhart

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flying. The next day, given a
helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over
Los Angeles.
Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly
afterwards began lessons with Anita "Neta" Snook at Kinner Field near Long
Beach. She had several accidents during this period, some could be attributed to
unreliable engines and slowness of the planes. By October 1922, Amelia began
participating in record breaking attempts and set a women's altitude record of
14,000 feet, broken a few weeks later by Ruth Nichols.
In 1925, Amelia took a position at Denison House in Boston as a "novice"
social worker and was later employed as a staff member. She joined the Boston
Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association, and invested what little money she
had in a company that would build an airport and market Kinner airplanes in
Boston. During this time she took full advantage of the ...

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that Stultz and Gordon
were ignored by reporters. It was the woman they had come to see...or rather "the
girl" as they insisted on calling her. Even President Coolidge had gave his personal
congratulations to Amelia. On to London, then to the States to a full calendar of
tours. Amelia was in great demand on the lecture circuit and pictured frequently in
the newspapers. Behind the scene, George Putnam kept Amelia's name in the
forefront of everyone's mind and in the pages of newspapers across the country.
Amelia flew a solo flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast in September 1928 to
attend the National Air Races. Returning to New York, she began a series of ...

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