In the 1920s, in “The Crack-Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald declared, people “thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air.”

Born in 1897 in Atchison, Kansas — a small town with limited opportunities, especially for women — Amelia Earhart decided aviation could satisfy her restless blood. In 1928, she became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane.

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