You are learning about Amelia because she was a very famous American woman who learned how to fly and then broke lots of records for how fast high and long she flew. This was at a time when people had only been flying for just 20 years, and most aviators were men. Amelia was fearless and felt she could do anything a man could do. She was like a rock star in America in the 1930s.
Everyone had heard about her brave flights in small planes ,on her own, across two big oceans. She also learned how to mend planes when it was thought to be men’s work. As well as being a brilliant aviator she also wrote lots of books to encourage women to do what she did.
