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Amelia Earhart planning to fly around the world again
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:34 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:34 pm
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Just about every single day of her life, Amelia Rose Earhart — a TV traffic-and-weather broadcaster in Denver — has had to answer this question: "Are you a pilot?"
For a long time, the answer was no.
Now, though, she's planning to embark this month on a flight around the world, a trip that closely replicates the 1937 journey of the original — and more famous — . If she's successful, this Amelia, at 31, will be the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft.
For simplicity's sake, let's call the contemporary pilot Amelia and the historic pilot Earhart.
And for the record, Amelia is not kin to the famous pilot. She used to think she was, but her mother just took the opportunity to give her a cool name. Amelia says that finding out she is not related actually brought her closer to her namesake. "I feel like we share so much."
The flight, which Amelia has been plotting for about a year and a half, will take off from Oakland on June 23. She'll be flying a Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop plane. Earhart flew in a modified Lockheed Electra 10E with two engines.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:35 pm to Jim Rockford
Well I wouldn't mind being her co-pilot.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:37 pm to Jim Rockford
Wait until you here abut her sister Debbie and her plans to visit Dallas.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Would fly in a hurricane with her.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:53 pm to Jim Rockford
So she just learned to fly and now is going to take off around the world? Good luck with that hot girl
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:54 pm to Jim Rockford
There's a "yanking on my flight stick" joke in here somewhere.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:54 pm to Broke
She could help a feller get his gear up.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 1:58 pm to Jim Rockford
I see she's taking on the Pacific first. Smart move.
Good for her, but this doesn't impress me as much now.
Good for her, but this doesn't impress me as much now.
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The plane, equipped with Wi-Fi, will have live-streaming video and audio. She and her co-pilot, Shane Jordan, will be sending out tweets and Facebook messages — while the plane is on auto-pilot — using the hashtag #flywithamelia.
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:23 pm to Jim Rockford
attention 'ho, I've been doing that 2-3 times a month for years, no one even cares
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:29 pm to upgrayedd
In other words, Shane Jordan to become 11323rd man to fly around the world.
This post was edited on 6/2/14 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:56 pm to Jim Rockford
not legit, IWHI
This post was edited on 6/2/14 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:59 pm to LaBR4
Does anyone else think she is pretty hot?
Posted on 6/2/14 at 2:59 pm to Jim Rockford
Now that's a cockpit I can see myself in AMIRITE
Posted on 6/2/14 at 3:01 pm to goldennugget
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Does anyone else think she is pretty hot?
She's taking my cabin pressure off the charts
This post was edited on 6/2/14 at 3:04 pm
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