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Amelia Earhart: pilot extraordinaire

A fearless flyer who broke multiple aviation records, Amelia Earhart found freedom above the clouds and showed the world what women could do. But how did she reach such heights in the first place?

While at a California air show, a 23-year-old Amelia Earhart arranged to have her first ride in an airplane – and the effect of the experience on 28 December 1920, she later recalled, was immediate. “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.”. With it, she soon broke the women's altitude record with a flight at 14,000 feet.

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