Lost in the glare of Earhart’s posthumous elevation to aviation sainthood are the other women pilots of aviation’s golden age who, as much as Earhart, defied the era’s systemic misogyny to prove a woman’s place was in the cockpit. Forgotten is how Earhart substituted courage for competence to achieve fame, and missing is an appreciation of the unique socioeconomic environment that made it possible.

— Ric Gillespie, One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy

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