Amelia Earhart was a pioneer in the early days of aviation.

She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

She was the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

In 1937, she set out for her greatest adventure ever.

It would be the longest single flight in history, and it would take her around the world.

However, on July 2, 1937, she took off from Papua New Guinea and was never seen again. Learn more about the disappearance

of Amelia Earhart and what probably happened to her on this episode of Everything Everywhere

Daily. daily. Even if Amelia Earhart hadn't so famously disappeared, she would still have been remembered as one of the pioneers of aviation and one of the most significant figures of the 1920s and 1930s.

She grew up in Abilin, Kansas and later moved with her parents to St. Paul, Minnesota and then to Chicago.

She picked her high school in Chicago based on their science

labs. She worked as a nurse in 1917 in Toronto coming down with the Spanish

flu and then in 1919 enrolled in Columbia University for a year.

She initially intended to study medicine.

However, her life changed forever on December 28th, 1920.

When in Long Beach, California, she flew in an airplane for the first time with noted air racer Frank Hawks.

That 10 minute $10 flight set her on a course that would change history.

She immediately knew that flying was what she wanted to do and she set out to learn how to fly.

She took a series of odd jobs to save up for the $1,000 needed for her to take flying lessons.

She arrived at the Kinner Air Field near Long Beach and was taught by another female aviation pioneer Mary Netta Snook.

Airhart began setting records almost immediately. In 1921 1921 she purchased a used byplane

in 1922 she used it to fly to 14,000 feet

setting a woman's altitude record

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