Wind Beneath their Wings(Comparison essay)

The first American woman to become a licensed pilot was Harriet Quimby. Quimby received her pilot license in August of 1911 from a school in Hempstead, New York. In April of 1912, Quimby left on a flight with hopes to set a record and get recognition. Although, at the time of her flight, was the sinking of the Titanic, so people did not want to celebrate with her. Also, a man had already made the same flight, so the papers did not want the story. Three months later, Quimby died at an airshow near Boston. Never getting the recognition she wanted and deserved. Like Quimby, Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson were also female pilots. However, they were better known than Quimby. Earhart and Johnson have similarities in their backgrounds, both have many accomplishments and their deaths were tragedies.
Earhart and Johnson both have similarities in their backgrounds. Earhart, for example, was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Six years later, on July 1, 1903 in Hull Yorkshire, Johns...