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  • hello subscribers and others watching David Hoppe and filmmaker I'm about to show You a story that I made back in 1997 about a woman who flew around the world herself, solo piloting to do what Amelia Earhart had said she was going to do.

  • But Amelia died along the way.

  • Do you know the story of a Mini A Rod?

  • You know, Amelia Airai Waas when she was an extraordinary American woman.

  • She was a pilot at the time of the great racing days of aviation when these pilots, like Amidror, were stars like Hollywood stars or rock stars.

  • Very famous, world famous.

  • She was beautiful.

  • She was out spoken.

  • She was courageous and she was kind of a symbol for women.

  • Of the things women could do.

  • She made this statement largely to women.

  • You should have your dreams, and you should not live within the limits that society has set for you.

  • So think about this woman, Linda Finch.

  • Linda Finch, a businesswoman, real estate developer, successful woman becomes addicted to flying and she rebuilds the exact plane Exactly that.

  • Amelia Earhart flew the Lockheed 10 e and she trains herself and she gets a Navigator.

  • Just like, um, idiot did.

  • And she sets off in 1997 to fly around the world.

  • I think she called her project.

  • You can soar A media accomplished what she accomplished with a lot of class and a lot of style, and she had the backing of her husband, who was a rich guy.

  • George Putnam give you an idea of her character in her pre nup, she said.

  • Look, if either one of us wants to get out of this in the first year, we can separate with no cost.

  • So she was not allowed to get married, but she didn't need George Putnam support.

  • And she says she's gonna fly around the world.

  • She doesn't take off from Oakland and fly around the world and be the first woman solo pilot to fly around the world.

  • It doesn't make it.

  • She dies somewhere in the South Pacific.

  • Nobody knows exactly where they've been.

  • Many efforts to find Amelia the last one, I think.

  • In 2019 Summer of 2019.

  • Robert Valid, The Great Nautical Explorer goes out with all of his team to this little teeny island where they think they heard the signal from her airplane, the distress signal and they did not find anything.

  • Unfortunately, the plane probably disintegrated, but the engines might still be there.

  • So there's still people looking for what happened to Amelia Earhart.

  • It was, and to some extent, still is national news.

  • So you're about to see a film where Linda Finch attempts to recreate that flight, and this time she has tens of millions of American students following.

  • NASA is following her online, but still, it's a pretty tough trip.

  • She'll tell you about it in this film.

  • I have restored several airplanes in the past, and I was looking for a new airplane project started really to kind of research what I wanted to think about that, and I wanted something that was more graceful, wanted something that was older.

  • It's a different You're a common but exciting here at the same time, and the Electra first caught my attention as I was learning about the electro, the first thing I had to to learn about Amelia and I got these books that she wrote, and I could I could feel what she was saying.

  • I'd start laughing out loud.

  • It was just she would use the same words or, you know, or destroyed the same feelings.

  • It was It was just, you know, it was like I just knew her.

  • She captivated us.

  • She was doing the things, all of us the female pilots wanted to do.

  • They called us daredevils of the skies, but she he was our hero.

  • It wasn't her beauty.

  • She had a special way about her.

  • She was up there with the gods, yet she acted as if she was on the same level as the rest of us.

  • My name's meaning Avalon and your occupation.

  • I'm a fire.

  • It was almost 60 years ago when Amelia Earhart took off on her world flood.

  • It was the most challenging air adventure anyone had attempted 27,000 miles around the world at the equator.

  • 60 years later, on March 17th 1997 Linda Finch, accomplished pilot and San Antonio businesswomen will attempt to recreate Amelia's expedition in a perfectly restored Elektra.

  • I will be recreating it in exactly the same aircraft.

  • The model that she used it is a Lockheed Electra 10 e.

  • There's someone of two left in the world.

  • There are only about 15 manufactured ever since, a very rare craft, and it's being restored as an exact replica of Amelia's airplane.

  • The route will be exactly the same as she flew with exceptional landing at Howland Island, which there's no longer runway, that we will overfly Howland and drop a wreath.

  • And in her memory there she was absolutely fearless, absolutely fearless, more Southern.

  • I absolutely more so than I.

  • She flew across the Atlantic initially as a passenger, and she got more attention than the pilot nobody knows.

  • The name of that pilot flew across the Atlantic in 1928.

  • Nobody and Amelia was the most famous woman in the world.

  • She described her experiences being like a sack of potatoes.

  • She was totally useless, and she was somewhat embarrassed by the attention that she received.

  • There was nobody else look up, too.

  • She was the only hero when we had.

  • We look forward to the next edition of the paper to see what immediate was doing next in 1930 to 5 years to the day on the anniversary of Lindbergh's flight is when she flew solo across Atlanta.

  • Approximately 17 attempts had failed.

  • Many people have died.

  • No one else could duplicate what he had done.

  • And she did.

  • Looking back at Amelia All weaken.

  • See our gracious public performances before the newsreel cameras.

  • But what she achieved in those old airplanes was no mean feat.

  • What is the latest in part on the way it took great courage to attempt to cross the Atlantic alone for just a minute to get by writing in her log, Amelia described it this way.

  • 12 minutes after seven wind was right at Harbor Grace.

  • So I gave my Vega the gun.

  • Despite the heavy fuel load, she rose immediately.

  • A minute later, I was headed out to sea, cruising at about 12,000 feet.

  • An enormous cloud loomed before me.

  • It was too high for me to climb over, so I had to fly straight into an electrical storm.

  • Wind tossed and battered.

  • The Vega I couldn't see out of my carpet on was flying completely blind.

  • My altimeter failed, leaving me to guess in the dark how high or low I was flying.

  • It was impossible to stay on course.

  • I began picking up ice, a hazard all flyers dread at the same time, a weld in the exhaust manifold cracked on, flames from the engine blazed in the night.

  • I died down in the hope that the ice would melt but heavy with ice.

  • My plane went into a spin.

  • I pulled out of it so near to the sea that I could see the waves breaking beneath me.

  • I was forced to climb.

  • It wasn't safe to use my instruments.

  • So near the surface, because of the farm, ice formed again on the windshield.

  • For the next 10 hours, I fought to stay low enough to prevent icing but high enough to fly safely on my instruments.

  • The cabin stank of gas fumes, but it was critical to have fuel for the engine.

  • My transatlantic rations consisted of one can of tomato juice, which I pierced with an ice pick the last two hours with the hardest.

  • When I reached up to turn on my reserve fuel tank, I found the gauge was broken.

  • Gasoline began dripping down the back of my neck.

  • I had no idea how much fuel I had left.

  • Shortly after dawn, I spotted a fishing boat and then a coastline.

  • I couldn't see a landing field, so I came down in a long sloping meadow.

  • Amelia's landing in Ireland took local farmer Dan McCallion by surprise.

  • Where am I?

  • She asked him here in daddy, sir.

  • In Derry, on London.

  • Berry?

  • Yes, sir.

  • I mean Mom.

  • And And have you come far from America?

  • Holy Mother of God.

  • McCallion muttered It wasn't long before she was besieged by newsmen, photographers and autograph hunters.

  • The world had fallen in love with Amelia Earhart.

  • When she returned to New York, Amelia was America's dark ready.

  • She didn't like the thing, but she accepted it because it was she had to do if she was going to accomplish what she wanted to do, Tristen gets fire.

  • Women get off their duffs and to what they wanted to do.

  • You know, I say one thing.

  • It does not take courage.

  • So much to go on.

  • It doesn't interest in the past, I believe that women have as much courage as man.

  • Flying was really secondary to her mission of communicating to people that they did not have to live within the limits that society set for them.

  • And her big.

  • Her big message at that time was women in the early 19 thirties that were so cared for that.

  • They were taught limits.

  • They were taught to live smaller lives.

  • And they needed to do Amelia inspired women to conquer new horizons.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt said she helped the cause of women by giving us a feeling there was nothing we couldn't do.

  • Yesterday I hopped off from last Angelus about noontime and landed in New York this morning after a nonstop transcontinental trip.

  • It took me 19 hours and a few minutes to complete the journey.

  • And what did you carry on the trip?

  • You mean eat?

  • Yeah, they even drink.

  • Well, I carried some water, of course, because my cockpit is very warm and I carried a sandwich in case I didn't eat it, though I carried some hot chocolate and the old reliable commodity Amelia Earhart kept on pushing.

  • Nothing was going to stop her.

  • She had a dream.

  • A vision for her future.

  • Ah, vision.

  • She had not yet stated publicly.

  • But we all felt it was coming.

  • Well, I haven't made any flight announcements yet officially, but maybe some of the guests is the right.

  • Anyway, the ship is equipped to fly a long distance.

  • She mentioned to us that she was considering an expedition around the equator.

  • She would need an Electra, the most modern, most graceful airplane we had ever seen.

  • Linda Finch is determined to recreate their hearts flight exactly to succeed, her 60 year old Electra must be restored.

  • The absolute perfection.

  • When the airplane got here, it was on a trailer, almost like it.

  • An angle like it would be banking.

  • And it was all nasty.

  • And half the paint was stripped and half of it was off and the wings were laying underneath and it came around the corner of the hangar.

  • And when I saw that, I mean, I just have goose bumps, and it was almost like her plane was just coming back.

  • I got the rest of these pictures, guys.

  • Oh, great.

  • When I first got here, I was like, Well, where's the blueprints?

  • And they showed me a stack of photographs.

  • Here's a magnifying glass, and that's what we had to counter ex accounted rivets, you know, out of a photograph.

  • Okay, look, it's 12 reverts back, and that's where that Lang goes.

  • And I mean, that's how we put this thing together.

  • This is a piece that we're gonna have to goto Oakland and take off Fred's airplane.

  • That's right.

  • There's no way to know, to begin with, whether we had all the parts or what parts were actually missing too weak.

  • I got to the point of actually assembling some of them.

  • This is really like this.

  • It's a leading edge up front.

  • When it took the fittings out this far, I was cooling hate and rats never heard in all kinds of stuff birds, and it was definitely going going to airplane heaven.

  • If she didn't pull it up at him and it was already on its way, there was well on its way.

  • Now it it's phenomenal was, you know, it looks like a brand new craft.

  • Now, from the moment she first flu, Amelia became passionate about flying.

  • As soon as I was two or 300 feet off the ground, she said, I knew I had to fly, and her family wasn't wealthy, you know.

  • She did 27 different jobs to pay for lessons.

  • She drove a truck, learned photography.

  • She was even a nurse for a while.

  • Nothing could stop her from flying.

  • She could have done.

  • I think she wanted to do.

  • But I think she felt that she could reach more people, more women through aviation because of the new thing.

  • It was a glamorous thing, and, ah, it was a visible thing way were thrilled when Amelia announced she was going to fly around the world.

  • It was big news everywhere.

  • Playing I'm using on the proposed flight is a transport plane.

  • It is a Lockheed Electra, normally carrying 10 passengers and two pilots.

  • In place of the passenger seeds, I have installed large gasoline tanks.

  • Yeah, Linda Finch, like Amelia Earhart, has had to pull out the passenger seats to fill the plane with fuel for flights that'll be two or three times the Electras normal range.

  • It was a huge risk for Amelia, a risk Linda faces, too.

  • Contemplated course covers about 27,000 miles.

  • It will be the first flight and successful, which approximates the equator from open to Honolulu.

  • Then Howland Island, Theo Quater, the longest, hottest and most desolate route one could take around the world.

  • Nowhere else with the physical stresses be so challenging.

  • Nowhere else is the sun so high in the day at midday for so many days of the year, No, where else.

  • Is there less time to adjust between day and night through Mexico and back to the starting line?

  • You expect to accomplish something for aviation?

  • Well, yes, I do.

  • And it's quite successful.

  • I hope it will increase women's interest inside it, so it will be worth, while far as I'm concerned.

  • How about taking me along?

  • Well, I think a great deal of you, but £180 of gasoline on the flight, my little more valuable.

  • You mean prefer 185?

  • Thank you.

  • Get Dr.

  • As Linda Finch restores her electric major changes take place daily.

  • She had to search nationwide to find parts for her Fratton with Iwas vengeance.

  • They haven't been manufactured since 1961.

  • The wings are fragile, thin sheets of aluminum stretched almost to the breaking point.

  • Having to re skin one would cripple finches tight schedule.

  • The smooth lines of the electorate demand compound curves in the finch was forced to restore antique tools from the 19 thirties to re finish the plain skin.

  • I think she would have borrowed all the money if she had to to accomplish this mission because she wants the world to know how great familia was.

  • She wants to show how great this accomplishment could have been had it been completed back then.

  • And I think that's a great purpose.

  • This isn't the Linda Finch Show.

  • This is Amelia Earhart.

  • Show what?

  • All right, Aaron.

  • And again Oh, beautiful.

  • Okay, we're in today.

  • We got the wing on for the first time, and to see it with the wing on is just phenomenal.

  • Just absolutely phenomenal.

  • The airplane is so graceful.

  • It's It's just very, very special around the world.

  • Lady Bird and her crow ready for an adventure that nobody has ever tried before.

  • Amelia Earhart out to circle the earth at the latitude of the equator on That's the Earth's greatest circle.

  • On March 17th 1937 Amelia Earhart made her final checks before taking off on her flight around the world.

  • Way held our breath when she finally took off from Oakland for Honolulu.

  • A few of this new she thought this would be her swan song.

  • I have a feeling she wrote to her husband that there is just about one more good flight left in my system.

  • I hope this trip is it when I finished.

  • I mean, give up.

  • Long distance.

  • Done flying.

  • Emilio.

  • A fast ship had been checked with 27,000 miles on it.

  • Things did not go well for Emelia in Honolulu, and she crashed on takeoff.

  • She ground looped the electorate.

  • It just weighed too much.

  • She was lucky she didn't die.

  • She shipped it back to California in pieces.

  • There was a lot of damage.

  • Both the engines were destroyed.

  • The propellers, wings, gear, entire undercarriage of the aircraft and also sitting in a big puddle of fuel.

  • She'd get it across the runway in all that fuel because the fuel tanks broken a swell.

  • She'd always succeeded in the other flights.

  • And when she cracked up in Honolulu, there was no question there.

  • Anybody else would have said, Well, that's it.

  • But she, uh, said no.

  • She just took a plane back to look.

  • California had it repaired.

  • And with the other way, it was almost three months later when Erhard tried to get.

  • It was a rainy June morning, the trade winds of change direction.

  • So she had to fly east going east men she to hit the longest and most dangerous Pacific legs at the end of her journey.

  • This departure was quiet.

  • She just got into her airplane and left.

  • Millions was to set a record, flying as close as she could to the equator.

  • That's what had never been done before was to fly at the equator.

  • And that's where most of our trip is.

  • Cross Africa at the equator, all around into China, Um, and it's going to be There are days that she talked about it being 120 degrees outside across Brazil.

  • The stresses of the flight began to show, Emilia wrote in her log.

  • Just came through very heavy rain.

  • It blotted out everything.

  • Gas fumes in the plane made me sick, stomach getting weaker.

  • But she was in a hurry.

  • She flew all 22,000 miles.

  • She did all but the last three legs of her trip before she was lost.

  • And she did that a little over 30 days.

  • So she didn't want to go and have lots of social functions or stopping have dinners.

  • And when she got to Paramaribo, they brought dinner out to her and they set up a dinner in the hangar and they are like together there with the engine in the background.

  • They had to feel the aircraft themselves from very remote locations.

  • There were barrels all over the world with a millionaire heart written on those barrels of fuel.

  • People pump gasoline into my ship from drums, coffee, orange juice sandwiches.

  • I've never had better service at any airport we're stuck with.

  • The same problems they had with the factory will be 50% over the gross weight of the aircraft that on take off those kinds of weights.

  • The airplane will not fly on one engine.

  • So if we have one engine stopped for any reason, the fuel doesn't flow of fuel.

  • Pump doesn't work in all, pump doesn't work or, you know many things that have to work properly to support that engine running and we lose one engine, we will not be able to fly.

  • The airplane wheel crashed.

  • Amelia's expedition was getting more and more uncomfortable.

  • Diarist cockpit I've ever had, seeing nothing but rain from wispy clouds, oil from the props and rain on the windshield have made a smeary emotion, having trouble seeing.

  • We have to fly about 6 to 10,000 feet, most the way around the world.

  • If we have whether we cannot go over it and in many cases are fuel's gonna be limited and we can't go around it.

  • I tried to get something on the radio.

  • No go.

  • Rain static.

  • Never seen such rain.

  • I had to use the secondary for US Runway.

  • The long one was unavailable because of perverse wind going to land at exactly the same runway Emelia landed.

  • There's several.

  • They're gonna grass, several dirt strips.

  • Many of them are very desolate.

  • There's not anything.

  • As we go across Africa and even down through South America, there's some.

  • They're not large cities like Amelia.

  • Linda will be at the controls for 19 hours at a time.

  • Exhaustion, maybe her biggest challenge.

  • We're always pushing through, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we're in.

  • But I've made my schedule, and I'm going to abide by it.

  • I talked to Duck.

  • Are is 1700 miles and other than, uh, this one island here, there's no anything else.

  • Linda and Navigator Denny Gearan Gelli will have to land on remote islands that don't have fuel sources, so they plan to float fuel onto these islands and pump it by hand.

  • if they floated onto the island with barrels There somebody there in attendance or we get there.

  • We fueling.

  • We get there.

  • We feel like crossed into Rangoon encountered Maur rain, terrible monsoons.

  • The wind, dead ahead began to whip furiously deluge so savage a beat off patches of paint along the leading edge of the wings.

  • We will have delays because of weather, and we'll have problems will be many times.

  • We have to fly every day, all in a row.

  • The airplane is extraordinarily allowed.

  • The engines, um, sit beside you with the propellers beside you.

  • So you have all of both the prop noise, which is very loud as it goes through the air and the engine noise.

  • Um, there's very little or no insulation between you and the windows are open.

  • I mean, there's not even anything there.

  • So there's there's nothing to get rid of that, and it will be very tiring.

  • There is a risk.

  • Certainly it's not that I don't understand that, but I still feel like that could be managed.

  • She is the driving force behind it, and, uh, I think she's got the media's tenacity to carry it through.

  • LAE New Guinea.

  • After being grounded for two days, Amelia was impatient to get going.

  • The Elektra stands ready for her longest hop waited with gasoline and oil to capacity.

  • Finally, on July 2nd, Amelia felt the weather was as good as it would ever be.

  • And so she took off.

  • Her take off at Les was very difficult.

  • It was amazing that she handled the airplanes well.

  • She did and even got off.

  • She went off the edge of the runway and the plane actually dropped back down.

  • And I believe that she went out of sight.

  • There were witnesses that said that she was no more than 100 feet above the water.

  • She was so heavy.

  • Amelia was flying the biggest challenge of her trip.

  • Longest leg, the heaviest fuel load heading for a tiny landing spot amid miles and miles of open sea Howland Island.

  • Amelia's problem really was finding Howland Island, and Howland Island was so small, so tiny, tiny and it's, um, has no elevation in less than 20 feet of elevation, half mile wide, two miles long in the middle of nothing there.

  • There were not good points at which to be able to judge that she was on track, so she had to use only celestial navigation.

  • It was cloudy that she couldn't do that.

  • The island was not in the right place on the charts.

  • In the early morning, Amelia was bound eastward across the lonely mid Pacific.

  • Several hours later, she was going.

  • Disappearance shocked the world.

  • It was front page news everywhere, and it motivated the largest sea hunt in history.

  • In three weeks, 250,000 square miles of ocean were scanned, but there was no sign of Amelia Earhart.

  • People ask me, What do you think happened to Amelia and my answers?

  • I don't have an opinion, and it's not important.

  • I don't care what happened to her.

  • It doesn't matter anymore.

  • What we care about and what we should focus on, is your accomplishments, things that she gave to the world before she took off, Emilia wrote to her husband, Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards.

  • I want to do it because I want to do it.

  • Women must try, as men have tried.

  • When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

  • Her purpose and flights us to communicate her message, and the purpose of the flight is to get that message back across to people and remind them of what a hero she waas.

  • You know how important she truly was.

  • I can't tell you how many people come up to me and write letters to me constantly about what a difference she made in their individual lives.

  • And I think if we remind people of that now that that she'll make the same difference and that this flight in this project and I could make a difference in America, you can do whatever you set your mind to do.

  • And it's tragic that some generations don't think that's true anymore.

  • So if Leonard could help us feel that way again for a brief moment and maybe for the next generation that watches her, she will have accomplished much more than helping a 1,000,000 go down properly in history.

  • Whenever a woman eyes able to accomplish something, you know Linda Tripp IX is successful.

  • Writing columns is flying in the space shuttle.

  • Shannon Lucid is up in your space station now.

  • It just allows the young girls to say, Yeah, this is open to me.

  • I can do this.

  • I'd like to do that to that.

  • Sounds exciting.

  • Now.

  • What do I have to do to be able to qualify to do this sort of thing?

  • Linda Finch must practice in this World War two trainers to keep her flying skills sharp.

  • In August 1996 at the Great Experimental Aviation Association Air Show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, she will fly her electric impulse and announce our expedition.

  • World Flight 1997 will be underway.

  • From that moment on for Linda Finch, there'll be no going back, I guess.

  • What says it best?

  • My daughter bought me a book for my birthday recently, and she wrote in there that, um that that I have a chance to inspire others.

  • You know, not just her that that all her life has been an inspiration to her, but that I really get to communicate that to others the same time.

  • It was very touching.

  • Pilot Louise think, a friend of Amelia Earhart, wrote.

  • Light is abiding peace, absolute serenity.

  • It is faith and compassion, purest joy.

  • It is a spirit totally free flight is yesterday's yearning the fulfillment of today's dreams.

hello subscribers and others watching David Hoppe and filmmaker I'm about to show You a story that I made back in 1997 about a woman who flew around the world herself, solo piloting to do what Amelia Earhart had said she was going to do.

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女飛行員試圖重複阿米莉亞-厄哈特的最後一次飛行 (Woman Pilot Trys Repeating Amelia Earharts Final Flight)

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