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Amelia is born
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Amelia moved to Des Moines to be with her parents.
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Amelia sees her first airplane
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Amelia is a nurse in world war 1
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Amelia's first airplane ride
Several months after her arrival in California Amelia and her father went to an "aerial meet" at Daugherty Field in Long Beach. She had become very interested in flying. The next day, given a helmet and goggles, she boarded the open-cockpit biplane for a 10 minute flight over Los Angeles. "As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" -
Amelia starts flying lessons
Amelia had heard of a woman pilot who gave flying instructions and shortly afterwards began lessons with pioneer aviatrix Anita "Neta" Snook at Kinner Field near Long Beach. Amelia and Neta took to each other on sight, both having similar backgrounds. Neta had restored a "Canuck"...an old Canadian training plane. -
Amelia purchased a airplane naming it "The Canary"
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Amelia trys to break flying records
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Amelia took a position at Denison House in Boston
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Phone call from Captain H.H. Railey
Phone call from Captain H.H. Railey asking"how would you like to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?" -
Friendship takes off
On Sunday, June 3, 1928 after waiting several days for the weather to clear, the Friendship left for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bad weather conditions again delayed the flight out of Halifax till June 18. Flying through dense fog for most of their journey, they landed at Burry Port in South Wales and not in Ireland as had been planned...with little fuel remaining. -
Amelia is the first woman to fly the Atlantic
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Amelia talks to reporters
I was a passenger on the journey...just a passenger. Everything that was done to bring us across was done by Wilmer Stultz and Slim Gordon. Any praise I can give them they ought to have...I do not believe that women lack the stamina to do a solo trip across the Atlantic, but it would be a matter of learning the arts of flying by instruments only, an art which few men pilots know perfectly now. -
amelia gets maried
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Amelia anounces thar she will fly the Pacific
In the autumn of 1934, Amelia announced to George that her next venture would be a trans-Pacific flight from Hawaii to California...and then on to Washington D.C. Ten pilots had already lost their lives attempting this crossing. Amelia's flight would be the first in which a civilian plane would carry a two-way radio telephone. -
Amelia departed from Los Angeles, California for Florida
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Amelia dies
