she was 56
Neta Snook taught her to fly when Amelia was 13 Amelia was 21 when she was taught by Anita Snook . -Somebody has not read the dates properly.
Netta Snook ,Anita Snook actually, taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.
a female Flying Instructor named Neta Snook, later Neta Snook Southern, is generally given this honor. She only died in the l980"s and wrote a book entitled- ( what else) I Taught Amelia to Fly). she died in the San Francisco area.
Antia Snook
She got into flying by seeing her first plane at the Iowa State Fair and loved what it looked like and loved seeing the flyer's do tricks. And after that she got really interested in planes and flying. :)
Leta G. Snook was her first flight instructor. She wrote a book ( I Taught Amelia how to Fly) some years back. Ms. Snook, later Leta Snook Southern died around l989 in the San Francisco area if memory serves me right. A Snook is a species of Fish, by the way. She was not an associate of Vincent ( Gadabout) Gaddis, the (Flying Fisherman) and most racy radio fishing commentator!
Her parents always telling her not to give up.
Anita Snook and Paul Mantz were the people who taught her to fly.
Amelia was taught to fly in 1920.
Amelia was taught to fly in 1920.
Amelia Earhart's first flight instructor was Neta Snook, the first woman graduate of the Curtiss School of Aviation. Later she took additional training from John Montijo, a former Army instructor.Earhart had her first lessons, beginning on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach, but to reach the airfield Earhart took a bus to the end of the line, then walked four miles. Earhart's mother also provided part of the $1,000 "stake" against her "better judgement." Her teacher was Anita "Neta" Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 "Canuck" for training. Earhart arrived with her father and a singular request, "I want to fly. Will you teach me?"
Amelia's first flights were in Kinner Field near LA .She learned to fly there ,taught by Anita Snooks in 1921.