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

She Wasn’t Impressed with Airplanes

Airplane at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum / CC

At the ripe old age of 10, she saw her first airplane at the Iowa State Fair. She wasn’t sold on the idea at first, later recalling that it was just “rusty wire and wood” and didn’t look interesting at all.

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