When Amelia Earhart was 10 she saw her first plane but it wasn’t until she was about 20 that she got interested in flying, at a stunt flying exhibition. She took her first flying lesson when she was 24 and that changed her for good cause six months later she bought her first plane a yellow Second-Hand Kiner Airster. Her greatest accomplishments were being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo. I think that Amelia most exemplifies the part of the creed that mentions overcoming adversity. The reason why she is an example of this part of the creed is because she was told so many times what a woman can and can’t do and she still chose to follow her dreams.
On December 28, 1920 Amelia and her father visited Frank Hawks who gave her a ride on his plane. “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground I knew I had to fly” Quoted Earhart. Amelia had her first flying lessons beginning on January 3, 1921, at Kiner Field. Six months after that Amelia bought her first plane, a Kiner Airster, in which she broke her first record of rising to an altitude of 14’000 feet. Then April of 1928, Amelia got a phone call “how would you like to fly the Atlantic.” She promptly replied yes.
I think that Amelia’s flight across the Atlantic solo and her first flight across the Atlantic were her greatest accomplishments. Accompanied by Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot Louis Gordon Amelia took her first flight across the Atlantic and on June 11, 1928 landed in Wales, United Kingdom. In Amelia’s solo flight across the Atlantic she experienced many hardships although she eventually landed in a pasture in Northern Ireland. I think that these are Amelia’s greatest accomplishments because she wouldn’t let herself be told she couldn’t.
