23+ Facts You Probably Don’t Know About Amelia Earhart

She Set the First Women’s Altitude Record

Amelia Earhart's plane in the Air and Space Museum
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Earhart flew to 14,000 feet in October of 1922 during the air meet at Rogers Air Field. While she would certainly set other records that would be iconic later in her career, this was the first record that she broke, and it didn’t take her long to do it.

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