Time 23Mar2020

Amelia Earhart

1935 | INTREPID AVIATOR

In the days before Amelia Earhart settled into her cockpit on Jan. 11, 1935, ready to fly 2,400 miles

across the Pacific from Hawaii to California, an open letter urged her to stand down, noting that

10 others had died trying. She pressed on, becoming the first person—woman or man—to perform

the feat. Her grit and derring-do, on full display two years before her notorious disappearance, forever

expanded expectations for just how far the fairer sex could go. ÑKaty Steinmetz

‘I WANT TO DO

IT BECAUSE I

WANT TO DO IT.

WOMEN MUST

TRY TO DO

THINGS AS MEN

HAVE TRIED.’

1930s

EVERETT