The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

“An account of the vibrant aviator’s childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic.” —Booklist

In The Fun of It, Amelia Earhart recounts her childhood, her discovery of a love of flying, and the trailblazing experiences of her aviation career. At once professional and confessional, Earhart’s writing conveys her enthusiasm, tenacity, and commitment to her craft. A champion of women in aviation, she includes stories about other female pioneers in the field and urges young women to take inspiration from them and accept the challenge to reach further and go beyond. She concludes with a riveting account of her famous 1932 solo flight across the Atlantic, for which she was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by an act of Congress. This Warbler Classics edition includes thirty-one historical photographs, an essay by Hilary Masters, and a summary of Amelia Earhart's fateful 1937 around-the-world flight.

Amelia Earhart (1897; disappeared 1937) was an American pioneer of aviation. In December 1920 Earhart took her first flight and determined on the spot that she was destined to fly. She enrolled in flying lessons in January of 1921. In October 1922 she flew to an altitude of 14,000 feet, setting a world record for female pilots. In 1928 she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic, traveling as a passenger. A solo flight followed in 1932. In 1937 she undertook an around-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan, which ended when she and Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific near Howland Island on July 2, 1937.

Hilary Masters (1928–2015) was an American novelist and the son of the poet Edgar Lee Masters. A professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for thirty-two years, Masters also wrote novels, essays, a memoir, and short stories.

"...Her pages are full of the experiences, the information, the little things and the big things the public likes to know about.” —The New York Times