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Podcast: Literary Aviatrix: The Power of Story - Women in Aviation
Episode: Aviatrix Classics with guest hosts Dr. Jacque Boyd and Capt. Jenny Beatty - The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart
Description: Send us Fan MailIn this episode of Literary Aviatrix Classics with guest hosts Dr. Jacque Boyd and Capt. Jenny Beatty, we discuss The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart. This book offers fascinating insights to where aviation was at the time the book was published and how Amelia and her contemporaries imagined aviation would impact the future. We also learn from AE’s own words about her pre-aviation life, her selection and participation in the Friendship Flight as a passenger on a transatlantic flight, and ul...