In 1897 airplanes were not as common was they are today. Earhart was 12 years old before she ever saw an airplane,and she didn't take her first flight until 1920. Amelia was so thrilled by her first airplane ride that she quickly began to take flying lessons. Earhart excelled was a pilot. Her first instructor was Neta Snook, one of the first women to graduate from the curtiss school of Aviation. Earhart borrowed money from her mother to buy a two-seat plane. She got her U.S flying license in December 1921 and by October 1922 she set an altitude record for women of 14,000 feet!
" Seventy-five years after Earhart's ill-fated attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world, the mystery of her disappearance over the Pacific endures."