amelia earhart is a social worker from boston who comes next? you know in our quest to remember earhart or to solve the mystery of how she disappeared we seem to have forgotten almost everything about how she actually lived. and the fact of the matter is in 1927 and 1928 amelia earhart wasn't a famous pilot. she was a licensed pilot. but by her own admission, she wasn't doing much flying anymore. she was working at a settlement house. on tyler street in boston what people in boston now call chinatown? and she was helping new immigrants to this country. learn how to speak english. learn how to get a job. it was here at the settlement house in 1928 six months after ruth elders flight. the connected east coast businessmen would discover her including her future husband george putnam of putnam publishing and they would put amelia earhart on a seaplane sitting in boston harbor flown by men. plane that was going to be going across the atlantic. you know on this first flight amelia had no job but to sit behind the two men who were at the controls and ta

or, of course, amelia earhart. nd, when we think about amelia we like to think of her all alone, alone in that plane over the ocean, alone flying into those cultural headwinds, but, at the time amelia was flying, other women were flying with her. each of them was brave, each of them was bold, some of them, objectively were perhaps more talented in a cockpit than amelia. today we have forgotten almost everything about them. their battles, their losses, their friendships, the rivalries, what they fought for, how hard they fought. we have also forgotten that seemingly impossible victory over the man in 1936. with this book, with fly girls i set out to change that. reminding readers of this time and these characters. women who stood up for themselves and each other again and again. defiant in the face of roles that were intended to keep them in their place. and, also, confident in the knowledge of who they were. i want to be very clear, here, this is not intended to be a comprehensive history of women in aviation in the

whether your helicopter pilot, fixed wing pilot, women in aviation, or forced a friendship up at amelia earhart's hometown of atkinson, kansas. >> a good network. >> yes, yes, a great network today. >> you mentioned all the different types of pilots there can be, and you flown a variety of different aircraft, if i'm correct. was there a favorite that you had? >> yes, steer men, it's an old by weighing, open cockpit airplane, and i owned one as a youngster. well, as a youngster, as a 22 year old and hawthorne, california. silly me, i sold it when i wanted to go overseas, because i couldn't get anyone to work on the radio and jim. jets were just coming in, and of course to find a mechanic to work on a radial or a cylinder type of engine, when they could be working on a jet engine, unheard of. i sold it for, audience will love this, $3,000. today, that airplane is worth, in good shape, 130,000. and i'll go up to somebody and i'll say, i guess, can i have a ride? can i pay for a ride? i used to own one of these, i have about 3000 hours and one, and t sixes, and walk, those all the war birds. well, i