She took her first flight in California in December 1920, with veteran flyer Frank Hawks, and declared, "As soon as I left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly. Working for more than fifteen years for clients in top advertising agencies, her books combine creativity with learning, aiming to establish a new and fresh relationship between children and pop culture. S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, anchored off shore of Howland, could not complete any direct two-way radio communication and neither Earhart nor Noonan were competent at Morse Code. Amelia is rightly remembered as one of these pilots but, as Butler emphasizes, she was more than the figure who carried that label.

In August of 1929, she placed third in the All-Women's Air Derby, behind Louise Thaden and Gladys O'Donnell, which was the first transcontinental air race for women (from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland, Ohio) and a race she helped organized. Mantz was already famous as a stunt flyer and expert pilot of everything with wings; he had flown planes in every Hollywood film imaginable and would continue for decades in this capacity until he would be killed flying the crate used in the 1965 James Stewart film, "The Flight of the Phoenix. What's left to us now is an image of Earhart just out of the cockpit, or about to step into it, and the memory of her disappearance on her around-the-world flight.She tirelessly lectured across the country on the subjects of aviation and women's issues and wrote for Cosmopolitan and various magazines. Meet three inspirational Earth Heroes whose love of the natural world inspires them to make a difference: Jane Goodall, Greta Thunberg, and David Attenborough!

I would have given up if not for a strong interest in her disappearance - I was let down at the end.She never stopped encouraging other women to follow her example of learning to fly, and working to provide them with the means to that end. She wrote about her flights and career in 20 Hours and 40 Minutes, The Fun of It, and Last Flight, which was published after her disappearance. For example, not many people in the world today, realize that she was a social worker before she became a well-known aviator, or that social work was once a highly esteemed profession in the early part of the 20th Century. Living around Los Angeles, and being involved in aviation, even as a beginner, at that time allowed her to become acquainted with some of the early fliers and businessmen who would become well known in the future aviation industry. Born in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897, Amelia Earhart displayed an independent style from childhood, including keeping a scrapbook on accomplished women, taking an auto repair course, and attending college (but never graduating).