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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. She was the first woman aviator in Iowa, first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, first woman aviator to run her own aviation business and first woman to run a commercial ...
- Bill Southern
- Amelia Earhart's first flying instructor
- Mary Anita Snook, February 14, 1896, Mount Carroll, Illinois, US
- Aviator
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.
19 ott 2022 · “ Neta Snook” is likely a name you haven’t heard, even though, as the instructor for Amelia Earhart, the most famous female aviator ever, she is one degree of separation away from great renown. But even without her connection to aviation royalty, Snook’s flying career was a short but spectacular one.
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. Yet it is for her connection with another pioneering woman pilot that Snook remains best known.
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18 mar 2019 · Women in Transportation History. Aviation pioneer Neta Snook Southern was born in the city of Mount Carroll Illinois, in 1896. While best known for teaching Amelia Earhart how to fly, Southern also left behind a legacy of several other noteworthy aviation achievements. Southern graduated from Shimer School (now Shimer College) in ...
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.
5 dic 2023 · The onset of winter made flying in Iowa impossible so Neta shipped her Canuck to California and looked for work in the milder climate. She secured a job as a flying instructor and commercial flyer on an air field owned by Iowa native Bert Kinner.
