![]() ![]() When her parents divorced in 1924, Earhart moved with her mother and sister to Massachusetts and became a settlement worker at Dennison House in Boston, while also flying in air shows.Įarhart’s life changed dramatically in 1928, when publisher George Putnam- seeking to expand on public enthusiasm for Charles Lindbergh’s transcontinental flight a year earlier- tapped Earhart to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. With faltering family finances, she soon sold the plane. ![]() On her twenty-fifth birthday, Earhart purchased a Kinner Airster biplane. She flew it, in 1922, when she set the women’s altitude record of 14,000 feet. With her first plane ride in 1920, she realized her true passion and began flying lessons with female aviator Neta Snook. During World War I, she left college to work at a Canadian military hospital, where she met aviators and became intrigued with flying.Īfter the war, Earhart completed a semester at Columbia University, then the University of Southern California. The family moved from Kansas to Iowa to Minnesota to Illinois, where Earhart graduated from high school. She never reached her fortieth birthday, but in her brief life, Amelia Earhart became a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame improved public acceptance of aviation and paved the way for other women in commercial flight.Īmelia Mary Earhart was born on Jin Atchison, Kansas to Amy Otis Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart, followed in 1899 by her sister Muriel. ![]()
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