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By 1928 Earhart was living in Boston, where she worked at a settlement house for immigrants. She continued to fly on weekends and also served as a sales representative for Kinner aircraft. That April she received a telephone call that would change…

George Putnam's response to Commander Weems

Weems wrote this letter to Earhart after her near-disastrous takeoff attempt in Hawaii in 1937. Extra navigation training may not have kept Earhart from disaster, but it might have allowed to her appreciate shortcomings in planning an equipment.

Amelia Earhart is best known as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1932. She set many more records, including three years later being the first person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark, New Jersey…

King Albert meeting Amelia Earhart after she arrived in Brussels

Amelia Earhart designed this practical two-piece flying suit for the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots. Although the group never formally adopted the suit, the interlocking "9s" eventually became their logo.
The Ninety Nines was…

Amelia Earhart posing in front of her aircraft.

In the same year that Earhart married, she became vice president of the National Aeronautic Association, an organization devoted to the advancement of flight in America. In this job she performed many duties, including lobbying Congress to provide…

Amelia Earhart's palm print and analysis of her character prepared by Nellie Simmons Meier, 28 June 1933.

Amelia Earhart set two of her many aviation records in this bright red Lockheed 5B Vega. In 1932 she flew it alone across the Atlantic Ocean, then flew it nonstop across the United States-both firsts for a woman.