Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart
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I want to learn how to fly. I mean it, one of these days when I have enough money, I'm going to start taking lessons. For now, I'll just watch The Aviator and read books like this one. This was a very good book about the famous flyer. Full of interesting facts, a great read for a fan of Amelia or flyers in general. For example, as an interesting fact, on one of Amelia's first flights, she spent the entire time with an oil leak in the cockpit of her plane. The oil dripped down her back for the entire flight, ick! But it must have been an exciting time to be a pilot, testing all the new technology as it literally rolled off the assembly line, tweaking the engines and such to fit your needs. It seems so romantic, yet I'm sure it was more hard work than anything else! I also really like a small story from her childhood. Seems she and her sister decided to build a roller-coaster in their backyard. But for some reason, they didn't build a down-hill for the last hill. Instead, they flew off from the top. They tweaked it for the second try, building that downward slope. And my sister and I used to give our aunt a heart attack hanging upside down from the monkey bars in the backyard, imagine if we had come up with the roller-coaster idea! Too late now.
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