Sunday, August 11, 2013

"Amelia Earhart" plans to pick up where her namesake left off back in 1937 - her mission to fly around the world.




Amelia Earhart plans to complete her legendary namesake's doomed final flight around the globe in just two weeks.
Back in 1937, trailblazing aviatrix Amelia Mary Earhart, 39, mysteriously disappeared over the South Pacific, but her legacy still inspires women (and men) to soar past boundaries.
Next summer, her distant 30-year-old relative hopes to become the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft.
"I really started thinking about the possibility of flying around the world when I was 18. My flight training intensified over the last two to three years, so it was time to take it to the next level," Amelia Rose Earhart told the Daily News.
Earhart and co-pilot Patrick Carter will fly the Pilatus PC-12 NG - cited as one of the safest single-engine turboprop planes on the market - roughly 28,000 miles around the world in 14 days, making only 14 stops. Her proposed adventure begins and ends in Oakland, Calif.
"The flight around the world, for me, is one of the true flying adventures that's really going to propose a challenge about the thinking behind it," said Earhart, who needs to secure numerous international permits to accomplish her goal.
The adventurer's parents named her after the high-flying pioneer so she would always have a positive female role model in her life.
Even though she needs to clarify that, "Yes, that is my real name" upon every introduction, Earhart considers the name her parent's greatest gift: the woman's values, charity, work ethic and aviation skills animate everything in her life.
"I think it was the time she was born," Earhart said. "She was the one out there putting herself in situations where women weren't invited, yet ... she pursued her passions on every level."
When not pursuing her passion for piloting aircrafts, Earhart can still be seen hovering over the Denver skyline in helicopters as a traffic reporter for Colorado station KUSA.
The trip will raise money for the Fly With Amelia Foundation, Earhart's nonprofit organization that offers flight scholarships for teen girls.
"I want to get people out to the airport, especially girls who are at that age to build responsibility, to build courage."


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