There are many aspects to Earhart which make her such a famous person allowing her to be a successful pilot.  If she’d grown up different, been a man and not selected to cross the Atlantic, she may not have been as famous.  Thus, her life allowed her to be famous, but it was her flights that truly made her famous.      Amelia had dreamt about becoming a pilot since she was a child.  After her accident on the homemade roller coaster she jumped up from the ground and joyfully told Muriel that it felt as if she had flown, an d she wanted to go again.  Though her mother stopped her that day, it wouldn’t be the last time she flew, or the last time she crashed.      In 1921 Amelia was living in California and decided that it was time to get her pilot’s license.      "When I came down I was ready to sign up at any price to have a try at the air myself.  Two things deterred me at that moment.  One was the tuition fee to be wrung from my father, and the other the determination to look up a woman flyer who, I had heard, had just came to another field.  I felt I should be less self conscious taking lessons with her, than with the men who overwhelmed me with their capabilities." -AE (Morrissey, 61).      Later that year, at the cost of both Amelia and Muriel’s life savings, and a few hundred dollars from their mother, Amelia bought her own airplane, a new Kinner Airster.  A few days later she crashed in a cabbage field, but suffered little damage.      Amelia was not alone as a female pilot, Neta Snook, her flight instructor, helped break the glass ceiling for female pilots.  She taught Amelia and many other women how to fly.  In 1928 Putnam, working for Mrs. Guest, interviewed a few female pilots, but picked Amelia, and she was contracted to make the transatlantic flight making her an instant star.  A year after that she competed in a womens’ flying derby against nineteen other female pilots and place third.  In 1932 Earhart made a solo transatlantic crossing.  Her most difficult set of flights were to take her around the world.  She flew from Oakland to Honolulu, and on her next takeoff a tire blew, and her famous Electra crashed on the runway.  In two months time the Electra was shipped back to California, repaired, and readied for a second try.  Throughout her flights around the world the public was brought along for the journey via the daily newspaper accounts which told of all Earhart’s experiences.  When she disappeared in the Pacific the largest naval search ever scoured her last location to no avail for a sign of where she went down.