[quote]Equipped with a smartphone, a modern-day Amelia Earhart this weekend completed the journey that the pioneering aviatrix who inspired her name never did.
And yes, that's her real name.
Earhart, 31, isn't related to the female pilot who disappeared more than seven decades ago, but she was given the famous moniker at birth and an around-the-world flight has been an aspiration of hers since childhood. [B]She set off on her global voyage from Denver on June 25, where she returned Saturday as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine plane.[/B]
"I feel like it’s a part of me. It’s what I was born to do. And now, we did it. We finished the flight around the world,” Earhart told NBC’s Nightly News.
She coined her excursion [URL="http://www.ameliaearhartproject.com/"]“The Amelia Earhart Project”[/URL] and chronicled the 17 stops and 24,300 nautical miles for Americans tracking her travels with photos and videos shared on social media. Earhart is also the President of the [URL="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fly-With-Amelia-Foundation/142694695907386?sk=info"]Fly With Amelia Foundation[/URL], which provides education and scholarship opportunities to young women interested in aviation.
It was a tech-savvy voyage that surpassed the primitive tools available to communicate with the original Earhart last century. The tag #flywithAmelia enabled those rooting for the pilot to follow the journey in real-time on several social media platforms, and on-board WiFi kept the flier connected to her audience. [/quote]
[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amelia-earhart-completes-around-world-flight-n154706[/url]
Better late than never. Video's and more in source.
I'm sure the original Amelia would have been honoured.
It must be such a great experience doing this. The views and the locations, and seeing all these different cultures.
For a second I thought they had found the skeleton of Amelia Earheart.
[quote]Equipped with a smartphone
It was a tech-savvy voyage that surpassed the primitive tools available to communicate with the original Earhart last century. The tag #flywithAmelia enabled those rooting for the pilot to follow the journey in real-time on several social media platforms, and on-board WiFi kept the flier connected to her audience.[/quote]
Oh my god I can totally relate to her now, this is so relevant to the modern day and she posted on Twitter too? Gosh this just highlights how much more #technologically #advanced this Amelia Earhart is compared to the other one who probably didn't even have a Facebook.
Like how do you even circumnavigate the globe without a constant stream of hashtags?
[QUOTE=zeromancer;45397742]It must be such a great experience doing this. The views and the locations, and seeing all these different cultures.[/QUOTE]
I recommend the book Starship Diaries. Dude cashes out of Silicon Valley in the late 90s, buys a very unique plane, and flies it around the world. Takes him a year and a half, during which time 9/11 happened.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;45397722]I'm sure the original Amelia would have been honoured.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure she's smiling looking down at us from her spacecraft with her alien friends
I would not want to fly around the world in a single engine prop plane but that's just me, and I love flying
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;45398370]Oh my god I can totally relate to her now, this is so relevant to the modern day and she posted on Twitter too? Gosh this just highlights how much more #technologically #advanced this Amelia Earhart is compared to the other one who probably didn't even have a Facebook.
Like how do you even circumnavigate the globe without a constant stream of hashtags?[/QUOTE]
what the fuck are you on about
Why does she have to look like EVERY rich white girl ever? Something really obnoxious about it.
[QUOTE=GhostShoes;45400607]Why does she have to look like EVERY rich white girl ever? Something really obnoxious about it.[/QUOTE]
yeah wtf she's just like all those girls who rejected me......
looks arent everything ladies!!! jeez........
[QUOTE=GhostShoes;45400607]Why does she have to look like EVERY rich white girl ever? Something really obnoxious about it.[/QUOTE]
*tips fedora*
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;45398277]For a second I thought they had found the skeleton of Amelia Earheart.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-resting-place.htm]They already have.[/url]
Call it what you want, her flight was impressive. Even with modern tech there is still a huge safety risk. Plus you can never predict possible.mechanical failure.
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;45398277]For a second I thought they had found the skeleton of Amelia Earheart.[/QUOTE]
Amelia Earhart completes her journey, On the back of undead skeletal dragons from the abyss.
[QUOTE=GhostShoes;45400607]Why does she have to look like EVERY rich white girl ever? Something really obnoxious about it.[/QUOTE]
tumblr called, they want their extremism back.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;45400396]I would not want to fly around the world in a single engine prop plane but that's just me, and I love flying[/QUOTE]
no way it'd be fantastic. i'd love to do this.
it's not like she was doin this in a cessna
[QUOTE=mugofdoom;45398370]Oh my god I can totally relate to her now, this is so relevant to the modern day and she posted on Twitter too? Gosh this just highlights how much more #technologically #advanced this Amelia Earhart is compared to the other one who probably didn't even have a Facebook.
Like how do you even circumnavigate the globe without a constant stream of hashtags?[/QUOTE]
[url=https://soundcloud.com/your_text_spoken/i-live-the-tech-lifestyle]I know I couldn't.[/url]
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;45398277]For a second I thought they had found the skeleton of Amelia Earheart.[/QUOTE]
Relevant
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z7cr14q.png[/IMG]
My geometry teacher was a descendent of Amelia Earhart. He is probably proud.
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