Amelia Earhart
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Born in 1897, Amelia Earhart took her first flight in 1920 and declared, "As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly."
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Born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897, Amelia Earhart attended her first flying exhibition in 1918 while serving as a Red Cross nurse’s aide in Canada. She took her first flight in 1920 and declared, “As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.”
Earhart soloed in 1921 and the next year bought her first airplane. She wasted no time in setting a record, flying higher than any woman ever had before. Earhart would set many more records, including two in this red Lockheed Vega that made her famous around the world.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI 78-16945
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1936
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