Pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer in the aviation world. Here are three amazing anecdotes about Amelia Earhart that you may not have known.
Another woman taught her how to fly. Earheart took flying lessons at Kinner Field near Long Beach, California, in 1921. There, she was taught by none other than Neta Snook, the first woman to ever run her own aviation business and commercial airfield. Reportedly, Snook charged $1 in Liberty Bonds for every minute spent in the air.
She was the first woman to get a pilot’s license from the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). Pilots and airplanes weren’t legally required to be licensed during that era, which explains how Earhart was able to take lessons from Neta Snook. Earhart would go on to earn her license from the National Aeronautic Association in 1923, in addition to her license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).
She had a diverse career both before and during her time as a pilot. Earheart volunteered as a nurse’s aide, worked as a telephone operator, and tutored on the side. She was a social worker at Denison House in Boston at the time of her first trans-Atlantic flight (as a passenger) and even at the height of her aviation career she worked as a writer, and as a career counselor at Purdue University's Department of Aeronautics.
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