KUSA's Amelia Earhart to trace namesake’s flight

[Colorado Media Newsroom]

From The Denver Post:


Amelia Earhart, KUSA

KUSA traffic reporter Amelia Rose Earhart will trace the journey of her namesake, circumnavigating the globe in a Pilatus PC-12 NG single-engine aircraft. Departure from Oakland, California is scheduled for June 2014.
Earhart has taken to the skies in honor of her namesake before. This time it’s in partnership with Pilatus and Jeppesen.
She talked up the trip on NBC’s “Today” on Friday.
Per the release:

In partnership with Denver’s Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Amelia and co-pilot, Patrick Carter, will fly more than 100 hours and make 14 stops on their journey. This flight plan follows a 2012 transcontinental flight, also tracing one of Amelia Earhart’s noteworthy voyages from Oakland, California, to Miami.

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