Amelia Earhart · every age
What was Amelia Earhart doing at 31?
Nurse's aide at 20, first flying lesson at 23, gone at 39
- Aug 1928
First woman to fly solo across North America and back
An exhausting lecture tour followed through 1929.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Nov 23, 1928
Broke off her engagement to Samuel Chapman
A Boston chemical engineer. Putnam, her publisher, later proposed six times before she said yes.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - c. 1929
Raced in the first Women's Air Derby
Santa Monica to Cleveland. Afterwards she called a meeting of female pilots that became the Ninety-Nines.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 31
Portrait: Photo: Underwood & Underwood (1937), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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