Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents' home
in Atchison, Kansas. It was not till 1908 that the girls moved to Des Moines to be
with their parents, Amelia was 10 years old when she saw her first airplane at the
Iowa State Fair. It would be more than a decade before Ameli ....
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.... and were encouraging the sisters to join them. Several months after her
arrival in California Amelia and her father went to an "aerial meet" at Daugherty
Field in Long Beach. She had become very interested in flying. The next day, given a
helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over
Los Angeles.
Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly
afterwards began lessons with Anita "Net ....
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