Amelia Earhart, you plucky hero you, I am glad that you went out doing what you loved.

Here are a few snippets from her book “The Fun Of It”…

Ruth Nichols always dresses with charm and distinction. Even in the air she is apt to be garbed in her favorite color, which happens to be purple, and she owns a specially made purple leather flying suit and helmet.

Orville is quoted as saying “When the world speaks of the Wrights, it must include our sister. Much of our effort has been inspired by her.” […] Katherine Wright helped pay for and actually helped build the first heavier than air plane ever flown.

Starting from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on the afternoon of May 20, 1932, I landed near Londonderry in the north of Ireland the next morning, thirteen and a half hours after the take-off. That, briefly, is the story of my solo flight across the Atlantic. […] By the way, I didn’t bother much about food for myself. The really important thing was fuel for the engine. It drank more than 300 gallons of gasoline. My own trans-Atlantic rations consisted of one can of tomato juice which I punctured and sipped through a straw.