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Mary Anita "Neta" Snook Southern (February 14, 1896 – March 23, 1991) was a pioneer aviator who achieved a long list of firsts.
Amelia Earhart is the most famous of this group of aviatrixes, but Neta Snook, the woman who taught Earhart how to fly, is often overlooked. Snook had been flying for four years, having made a living as a test pilot and a barnstormer, when she met Earhart in December 1920 at California’s Kinner Field, where Snook was a flight instructor.
19 ott 2022 · Learn all about Neta Snook, Amelia Earhart's instructor and one of the first female test pilots in the world, in this column.
12 mar 2012 · Anita “Neta” Snook achieved a long list of firsts: first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial airfield.
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Neta Snook Southern (1896-1991), pioneer aviatrix, moved to Ames with her parents while in her teens. She graduated from Ames High School in 1915, and after attending a girls' finishing school, attended Iowa State College. Neta's love of flying stemmed from her father's love of automobiles.
Neta Snook, who had taught Amelia Earhart to fly, had begun flying lessons on July 21, 1917 but had not soloed when civilian flying was banned because of World War I. She remained active in aviation by taking a job with the British Air Ministry, inspecting aircraft engines under production at the Willys Morrow factory in Elmira, New York.
This photograph shows Earhart standing with her first flight instructor, Neta Snook (1896–1991), in front of the secondhand Kinner Airster that she bought in the summer of 1921 with money borrowed from her mother.
