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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...
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  • Laine Snook (born 1968), English athlete Larry Snook (born 1941), U.S. Army officer and judge Neta Snook (1896–1991), American aviator Ronald Snook (born...
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    Brian Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, born July 16, 1959 Neta Snook Southern, pioneer aviator, taught Amelia Earhart to fly Buster B. Jones, fingerpicker...
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  • sociologist. Mona Maris, 87, Argentine film actress, lung disease. Neta Snook Southern, 95, American aviation pioneer. Innozenz Stangl, 80, German Olympic...
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    Arthur J. Hartman Don Ultang Ila Fox Loetscher 1992 Charles A. Horner Neta Snook Southern: Taught Amelia Earhart how to fly. Sidney "Sid" Cleveland 1993 Clarence...
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    first African-American woman in the International Forest of Friendship Neta Snook (1896–1991), first woman to run an aviation business; taught Amelia Earhart...
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    the ground ... I knew I had to fly." The next month, Earhart engaged Neta Snook to be her flying instructor. The initial contract was for 12 hours of...
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  • Earhart in a Kinner Airster after crashing with her first instructor Neta Snook. Montijo was an experienced flight instructor for the U.S. Army Air Corps...
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    representative, lawyer, judge, and geologist; practices law in Mount Carroll Neta Snook, pioneer female aviator and aviation instructor Emmert L. Wingert, Wisconsin...
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  • young Earhart has her first training flight with female flight instructor Neta Snook. That same year, she buys her first aircraft, a Kinner "Canary," with...
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    Kinner Field, in what is now South Gate, California. Her teacher was Neta Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 "Canuck" for...
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