July 20, 2024
Aviator Amelia Earhart was the Taylor Swift of the 1920s and 1930s. It’s not the music, but her flying feats and charm that have made her so famous. She traveled to Parkersburg, West Virginia, to give a speech at Parkersburg High School on October 30. , 1936. This was just a few months before she and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937 in the Pacific Ocean on their round-the-world flight.
The headline in the Parkersburg Sentinel read, “Amelia Earhart, First Lady of Aviation, Here Tonight. “Tickets were $1. 00 for adults and $0. 25 for students. The article also hopes that cars parked at the best school for the occasion “will have good enough police coverage of Halloween revelers. “
Earhart visited Stewart Air Park in Parkersburg, which was on the site now occupied by Grand Central Mall. “You have glorious land,” she told owner Wayde Stewart and lead pilot Jay Sodowski. “You and your chamber of commerce deserve to be commended for your pioneering aviation in Parkersburg. The future offers wonderful opportunities. He said the terrain was some of the most beautiful he had seen for a city of comparable size.
However, Stewart Air Park had a grass runway, which she said was a limitation: “All shipping line stops are fields with hard-surface runways. The giant planes will have to have year-round service (planes ), which is unthinkable on a grass field. If Parkersburg wants it (sales department). . . , it would be advisable to get. . . suitable tracks.
He expressed interest in designing an airplane through Jay Sodowski. He asked him to submit the task to the United States Department of Commerce with his recommendation.
He drove his private car on this conversation tour. Then avoid Fairmont WV. Me surprised that with his celebrity prestige he gave talks in smaller towns. He also visited Glenville State College and Bluefield WV on other trips.
Earhart had many firsts as a pilot: the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean (she landed in an Irish farmer’s field), the first to fly from coast to coast in the United States, a high altitude record for a woman of 14,000 feet in 1922, and many more. Hundreds of books, films and tributes have been made about his life and his achievements.
Amelia Earhart married publisher George P. Putnam. Together, they put on a masterful publicity effort, featuring the books she wrote, speaking tours and celebrity endorsements. There is a clothing line to his name, with his initials “AE” as the logo. encouraged through its characteristic “active life” and its flight suits. Earhart trained to smile with her mouth closed to cover what she described as a toothy smile. Nothing has been neglected. She is a celebrity phenomenon in an era before news streaming and social media. Amelia has been a women’s advocate and a founding member and first president of The Ninety Nines, a pilot women’s organization.
Stewart Air Park, originally known as “Parkersburg Municipal Airport,” was a busy airport facility for more than 30 years. Its location was described as “Maplewood” in a post. The scholars had a food concession there. Hundreds of other people learned to fly in the field. In 1947 an air ambulance service was started through Shaver and Co. Funeral Home. There was a pilot education school in World War II. It was also the main educational center for South American pilots volunteering for war service. The facilities became less applicable after the Wood County Airport was built with paved runways in 1946. Stewart Air Park closed in the early 1970s when the shopping center was built.
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