Amelia Earhart has always been an enigma for many people. Everyone has a different theory as to how she met her demise. Well, how her life ended will not be the focus of this article. I want to celebrate and rejoice in her entrepreneurial, adventurous spirit. According the the dictionary meaning the word explorer is defined as a person who investigate unknown regions. For Earhart, international aviation was that unknown territory. Earhart lived only thirty-nine years but with those thirty-nine years she lived so much more fully than the average person. Today we still talk about her spirit to transverse the unknown, her curiosity and her child-like faith that took her to parts of the planet that few others had every seen.
Few people don't realize that although Amelia grew up in a wealthy family her money was placed in a trust fund and Amelia didn't have access to it for several years. Amelia went to high school and later a two year college where she soon dropped out. How did Amelia get into aviation well, the story goes that Amelia went to an air field and fell in love with flying. A pilot was trying to have some fun with her and flew directly over her expecting to run but Amelia stood her ground and didn't flinch. In that single moment I knew all I needed to know about her character.
Amelia became determined to become a pilot so she worked as a trucker, stenographer, and a photographer to get enough money to take flight lessons and the rest as they say was history.
Some facts about Amelia that you might not have heard are that she was an editor for Cosmopolitan magazine for two years, she had a line of clothing, and luggage. Amelia was a seamstress who often sewed her own garmets. Everyone wanted to be like, dress like and look like Amelia. Amelia's famous bob was imitated by women around the world, most women in aviation cut their hair short for practical reasons. She was an author and spy. Amelia was a smart marketing machine who sat on the boards of many organizations. She was intelligent, resourceful, adventurous, a champion for women aviators, and had an uncanny business savvy. She didn't have the word "no" written in her vocabulary.
Amelia's adventures are legendary. She broke records for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, the North American continent, flew in the Powder Puff Derby an all female air flight contest among many other solo flights she took.
A new movie is coming out about this amazing woman and her contributions to aviation, business, government, fashion and she literary world. Source Wikipedia.
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