Good Luck Amelia Earhart, and Godspeed.
A woman who shares the name of famous pilot Amelia Earhart will be embarking on an adventure this summer - a flight around in the world in a plane, aPilatus PC-12 NG. As this generation’s Ms. Earhart told KPHO CBS 5 News, she hopes that by recreating (and successfully completing) the 1937 journey, she will be able to get women excited about aviation.
She tells KPHO that her name was definitely well considered, "My parents wanted to give me a good female role model and give me a name that would spark conversation and hopefully lead me to adventure, and it looks like that's what happened.”
This flight hopes to get young women interested in aviation. As Earhart told KPHO, “There are so few women in flight. Six percent of pilots are female. So, we'd like to boost that number up and show that you don't have to be a tomboy to go out to the airport. All kinds of women are in aviation. I'm one of them, and luckily, I have the perfect name to hopefully get girls excited.”
She will, of course, have far superior technology to her predecessors. Her website, The Amelia Project, notes that her plane will be state-of-the-art, featuring, “precision Swiss engineering and construction [which] offers a unique combination of reliability, speed, range and performance.” She will make 14 stops over the course of 14 days, traveling somewhere near 28,000 miles.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/a-woman-named-amelia-earhart-is-going-to-fly-around-the-world-141140437.html
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She's been making plans for this for years (she originally thought she might have a distant relationship to Amelia Earhart, beyond sharing the name, but apparently that was disproven).
I wish her the best of luck. 