Amelia Earhart and Frank Hawks

Amelia Earhart and Frank Hawks

Amelia Earhart

Frank Hawks (1897–1938) took Amelia Earhart on her first airplane ride in 1921. An ex-Army officer, he worked at an airstrip in Los Angeles, where he gave flying lessons and performed stunts in local air shows. Although the flight excited her, she didn’t feel comfortable taking lessons with Hawks. Instead, she approached Neta Snook, the only female flight instructor in California. Snook was only a year older than Earhart but had graduated from the well-regarded Curtiss School of Aviation in Newport News, Virginia. Hawks went on to achieve multiple aviation records in a prestigious flying career, although he died in a plane crash in 1938.

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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

1930

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