Flying is a very common thing nowadays. This can be seen through flying as the use of modern transport and can even be done by women. However, this could not have been the case should Amelia Earhart had not flown across the Atlantic Ocean, proving that women could do a man’s job. Which is in this scenario, piloting planes.
Amelia Earhart was one of America’s first Female pilots. She was born in the eighteen ninety-seven in the Middle Western state of Kansas. She was in fact, able to receive an education equal to a boy of that time. This is unlike the rest of the girls born then, who were just taught how to sit quietly and speak softly, not allowed to play rough activities such as climbing trees that though considered normal for boys, were not the norm for girls.
She was totally captivated by the art of flying, something that boys were stereotyped to do. However, she still learnt how to fly a plane.
On June Seventeen, Nineteen Twenty-Eight, a plane left the eastern province of Newfoundland, Canada. Both the pilot and engine expert were men and the passenger was Amelia Earhart. Upon landing in Wales Twenty hours and forty minutes later, it was the first time in history that a woman had crossed the Atlantic Ocean by air.
In the last years of the Nineteen Twenties, hundreds of record flights were made, even a few by women. However, no woman had yet flown across the Atlantic Ocean.
On May Twentieth, Nineteen Thirty-Two, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland. She headed East in the plane. Though encountering some problems, after fifteen hours, she landed in Ireland. As such, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. This proved that women could stand on the same or an even better level as men, thus making history.
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