Dear Amelia Earhart

 

     

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

August 1996 Dear Amelia, Today was my first day of flight school and I feel like my head might explode. I studied the pre-assigned reading and I thought I was prepared for the first day of Aeronautics class. Boy was I wrong….

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

August 1986   Dear Ms. Earhart, It’s really going to happen. I’m going away for college. Our white Cutlass Supreme is packed to the hilt, and my entire family is out on the driveway, including my grandparents from England. It’s a beautiful…

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

                                                                 Daytona Or Bust

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

August 1986 Dear Ms. Earhart, I went and saw a movie called Top Gun with some friends. (I think they were called motion pictures in your day.) The story was about a Navy fighter pilot who has to overcome great obstacles in…

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

  June 1986 Dear Ms. Earhart, I got off the plane today in Florida and, WOW! The sun was shining and the skies were blue for as far as I could see; the perfect place, I think, to learn to fly. (Don’t…

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

June 1986 After the first flight Dear Ms. Earhart, I realize this is the second letter today, but I couldn’t wait to tell you about my first small airplane experience. It was the pits. The plane we flew in had big, fat…

Dear Amelia Earhart

 

June 1986 Dear Ms. Earhart, I’m about to have the best day. My mom has an acquaintance at her work, and guess what? She’s a pilot! (Her day job is a veterinarian—less exciting if you ask me—but she flies on weekends.) Anyway,…

Dear Amelia

 

  Letters to Amelia Earhart Over the next sixteen weeks, I will post a series of letters to the legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart. The notes are written from personal experiences during my senior in high school and freshman year of flight school….