Amelia Earhart · every age
What was Amelia Earhart doing at 38?
Nurse's aide at 20, first flying lesson at 23, gone at 39
- Sep 1935
Opened a flying school with Paul Mantz
The short-lived Earhart-Mantz Flying School. She finished fifth in that year's Bendix race in her outclassed Vega.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Jul 1936
Took delivery of her Lockheed Electra
Built with extra fuel tanks for the round-the-world flight she had begun planning early that year.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 38
Portrait: Photo: Underwood & Underwood (1937), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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