Amelia Mary Earhart Research Paper

Recognized by the title of “Lady Lindy”, Amelia Mary Earhart was a very significant icon in the world of aviation. She held several important positions such as the founder of The Ninety-Nine female pilots’ organization, an advisor to aeronautical engineering at Purdue University and a member of National Women’s Party. Being well-known as an American female pilot, she had an incredible bravery that no other women in her living hood could follow her. She had made a few amazing records in the history of aviation. The first ever record that she has ever created was making the transatlantic flight as the first woman passenger on the “Friendship” on June 17, 1928. At that moment, she was just an amateur flier who never had experience of instrument-flying.

Nicknamed as Millie in her family, she was the second child of Amy Otis and Samuel Edwin Stanton Earhart. She lived with her grandparents in her hometown until she turned twelve in 1909. She studied in a private school in her hometown and spent her summer breaks at her father’s place who worked for Rock Island Railroad in Kansas City, Missouri. During her childhood, her feminine behavior was hardly seen as she liked to do the unusual things that girls rarely do such as hunted rats with 0.22 rifle and climbed trees (Biography, n.d.). She was also very skillful with hammers and saws that she could build a mini roller coaster to be played with her childhood friends. Amelia and her sister, Muriel, enjoyed outdoors activity very much. They were both brave and naughty because they collected garter snakes and turtles. (Leeuw, 1955). Amelia’s appearance was sort of tomboy as she loved to have short hair. She did not have lots of friends as she had been moving to six different schools during her four years in high school. She even put a statement in her high school yearbook under her photograph “The girl in brown who walks alone” (Leeuw, 1955). Amelia attended Ogontz, a girl’s finishing school in the suburbs of Philadelphia after she has graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1915. She developed an interest to help people who involved in the war when

Mr. Earhart learned from the air show that flying costed about a thousand dollars. The price was crazily expensive for a ten-hour flying lesson; however, that did not stop her from learning. The moment when her father allowed her to take her first ride, she knew she had to find ways to fly on her own someday. The family of Earhart was financially unstable to support her flying lesson, so she was determined to find a job. She found her first job at a telephone company around L.A. It was awkward to tell the company the reason she wanted to work there was to gain money to learn to fly. Instead of telling so during her job interview, she told the staff that she wanted to learn about the telephone company. During this era, flying was still a new endeavor, thus, a lot of people did not know about women pilots. She found out about Neta Snooks, a woman flier in Bert Kinner’s airfield on Long Beach Boulevard in L.A. On January 3, 1921, the first time Amelia saw Neta, she was impressed that a petite woman like her could be as an excellent flier as any other man pilot. In order to take the lesson, she tolerated with Neta to pay for it whenever she could teach her instead of paying the total cost all at once. She sacrificed her time and energy to do several part-time jobs as a file clerk, photographer, office assistant, and her truck driver. On December 15, 1921, she received her license from National Aeronautics