Pilot Resumes Her Quest to Repeat Earhart Flight
A California dentist has resumed her quest to re-create Amelia Earhart’s record-breaking 1928 cross-country flight from El Paso.
Grounded until Wednesday by federal restrictions put in place after the terrorist attacks, Carlene Mendieta, 47, was en route to Arizona after spending a day in Texas.
Mendieta plans to fly to the same 24 cities where Earhart stopped on a 5,500-mile trip that made her the first woman to fly across the United States.
Mendieta’s 1927 Avro Avian, the same model Earhart flew, never flies above 1,000 feet and must refuel about every 3 1/2 hours.
Earhart and her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
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