Amelia Earhart wrote her first article in the November 1928 issue of The Cosmopolitan . It is edited here.
Her Daily Routine
“Yesterday I flew for an hour and a half. I needed to practice a dozen take-offs and landings. My runway was part of a polo field at Rye. Soon landing fields will be routine. I followed flying with tennis and swimming. In the evening, a dance. The next morning ten miles on horseback and more flying.”
Denison House
According to Amelia Earhart, her real job for the last two years was social work. she attempted to squeeze aviation into an already overcrowded twenty-four hours. Usually, she flew on weekends. As a result of vacation time, she became a passenger on the Friendship’s trans-Atlantic flight.
Amelia Earhart – First Woman to Cross the Atlantic by Air
“Preparations for the flight were secret. I told to no one except our head worker. Incidentally, my immediate family first heard of the flight after we hoppd off from Boston. Fortunately, we crossed successfully from Newfoundland to Wales. Hence, I became the first woman who made an air voyage between the new and the old worlds. The Friendship flight uprooted me from social work. Aviation became more prominent.
Reflections on Aviation
“Since 1920 I have piloted my own planes for sport. As a result, I have several hundred solo hours. I now have a chance to participate in the development of American aviation.” Amelia Earhart discussed aviation from her experience and viewpoint in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Surely no one familiar with the romance of aviation’s growth can fail to comprehend my enthusiasm for it. “Try flying yourself,” should be aviation’s first commandment. A number of men urged Amelia Earhart to interest their wives or women friends in aviation. She knew that if more women supported aviation, more men and women would fly.
“It hardly seems possible that there is great differentiation in the actual practice of flying, either. For various reasons not enough women have tried it to give an adequate basis of comparison. The limitations of women’s strength will be a check upon her activities in the air as they are on land.”
The article gives a great deal of insight into Amelia Earhart and her feelings about aviation.