Amelia Earhart

(1897-1937)

In 1937, Amelia decided to become the first woman to fly around the world.

Permission to Fly High

You wouldn't have dared to tell this aviation pioneer that flying airplanes was a man's world. Earhart gave herself permission to think sky high - she knew a woman had the ability to fly an airplane across oceans.
 
"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do," 1 she said.
She was the first person to fly solo between Honolulu and California. Her great thinking about aviation made her famous in her own day. Today, it's not unusual to find women piloting airliners all around the globe, inspired by Earhart's thinking and dreaming of the sky.

Amelia Earhart's path to becoming a Great Thinker: