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DenverDave
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« on: December 26, 2011, 10:25:28 AM »
Local Denver traffic reporter Amelia Earhart, a distant relative of the original, is recreating her name sakes flight around the world. She is starting by "recreating" a  flight across the United States. She is flying a really cool (Cirrus SR22) single engine plane with video cameras mounted on the tail and wing.(check out the raw video)


http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1347133794001

I have ridden by the news station on my bike several times, so it is Valk related Grin

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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2011, 04:51:12 PM »
She's alot hotter than the original version.   Shocked
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2011, 05:02:57 PM »
Not to be the party pooper, but we all know that current tech. makes this whole flight alot easier. Why not do it in the craptastic type of plane that was used the first time...
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2011, 05:25:29 PM »
Quote from: YoungPUP on December 26, 2011, 05:02:57 PM
Not to be the party pooper, but we all know that current tech. makes this whole flight alot easier. Why not do it in the craptastic type of plane that was used the first time...

Because she crashed and died the first time.
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« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2011, 05:38:56 PM »
Well obviously not the Exact same plane, but the same kind of plane....
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« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2011, 05:50:05 PM »
Actually, for that trip I'd rather have a serviceable old plane with new state of the art instrumentation/gps/nav, than a modern plane with the instruments available to Amelia (a watch, sextant, maps, dead reckoning and balls of steel).  I'd end up at the South Pole.... if I was lucky
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