Amelia Earhart 2.0 to fly same trip as predecessor

cbs ^ | June 27, 2014 | cbs

[AFreeBird]

Is she going to fly a Lockheed Electra?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Is she planning on reenacting the crash ?

[Unknowing]

Actually, a Pilatus PC-12 NG single-propeller monoplane.

[bigbob]

Amelia A. vs Amelia M.

[re_tail20]

Pilatus PC-12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-12

[mac_truck]

Amelia Rose Earhart

[miliantnutcase]

Not guilty!

[60Gunner]

A single-engine puddle hopper for a trip like that, over thousands of miles of open ocean and inhospitable terrain?

Scuhhhh-rooooooooooooooooo that, homm-bray.

[Constitution Day]

She looks great in the cockpit.

[Texas resident]

That is a wonderful thing she is doing, but what are they thinking. How is she going to navigate the middle east?
If she lands anywhere near Obama’s homies, she will have big problems. Just wondering.

[Taxman]

I’m impressed, but I’d be more impressed it she were flying a Lockeheed Electra!

[BluH2o]

My recollection of the current Amelia Earhart is her doing traffic reports in Denver for a local media outlet.

[Procyon]

I suppose it's o.k. for her to get her 15-minutes of fame using the Earhart brand-name but I am underwhelmed by this adventure. Very little risk. The aircraft, while single-engined, is a reliable turboprop that cruises at 30,000 feet in pressurized comfort at 300mph. It has the latest communications and navigation equipment and she's not the only pilot aboard.

[AFreeBird]

That was my thought as well.

[re_tail20]

She’s a local traffic reporter - not a daring rough adventuress.

Leave it to other, more daring, women to fly the vintage Lockheed Electra around the world and make it. She’ll settle for state - of - the - art now, just as the Lockheed Electra was state - of - the - art then.

She’ll most definitely be the first “Amelia Earhart” to actually make it all the way.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

And let’s hope she doesn’t suffer the same fate as Earhart 1.0.

My father, an WWII Navy vet, was convinced that Earhart and Noonan ditched close to Gardner Island - maybe even landed on the island - but they likely both suffered injuries as a result and died not long after that.

If the plane landed on Gardner, he always figured it was likely swept out to sea, probably within a few days, so he reckoned more that they ditched really close to the island, made it ashore, and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Jeff F]

Perhaps this will be next on the list to recreate:

[minnesota_bound]

She will need a navigator who drinks a lot like Amelia Earhart had. I think his name was Wrong Way Feldman.

[Disambiguator]

Is she going to fly a Lockheed Electra?

She's going to drive a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light.