Amelia Earhart Biography
At the young age of ten, Amelia Earhart attended the state fair, where she had the chance to gaze upon her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Without a second thought, she dismissed the aircraft and resumed playing. She is attributed with this verbal reaction after seeing the biplane, "It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting," mentioned in Mary Lovell’s The Sound of Flight. It wasn’t until Amelia had attended a stunt flying exhibition nearly a decade later in Long Beach that she would seriously become interested in flight. On December 28, 1920, pilot Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change her life.
During Amelia’s childhood, the family’s financial well-being was very unstable, which can be attributed to her father’s alcoholism. After losing his job for that very reason, he received rehabilitation but was never reinstated. Simultaneously, Amelia’s grandmother and caretaker, Amelia Otis, died. The Otis household and all of its contents were auctioned, and Earhart was heartbroken. She...
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