[AFreeBird]

Is she going to fly a Lockheed Electra?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Is she planning on reenacting the crash ?

[bigbob]

Amelia A. vs Amelia M.

[re_tail20]

Pilatus PC-12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-12

[mac_truck]

Amelia Rose Earhart

[Texas resident]

That is a wonderful thing she is doing, but what are they thinking. How is she going to navigate the middle east?
If she lands anywhere near Obama’s homies, she will have big problems. Just wondering.

[BluH2o]

My recollection of the current Amelia Earhart is her doing traffic reports in Denver for a local media outlet.

[Procyon]

I suppose it's o.k. for her to get her 15-minutes of fame using the Earhart brand-name but I am underwhelmed by this adventure. Very little risk. The aircraft, while single-engined, is a reliable turboprop that cruises at 30,000 feet in pressurized comfort at 300mph. It has the latest communications and navigation equipment and she's not the only pilot aboard.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

And let’s hope she doesn’t suffer the same fate as Earhart 1.0.

My father, an WWII Navy vet, was convinced that Earhart and Noonan ditched close to Gardner Island - maybe even landed on the island - but they likely both suffered injuries as a result and died not long after that.

If the plane landed on Gardner, he always figured it was likely swept out to sea, probably within a few days, so he reckoned more that they ditched really close to the island, made it ashore, and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Jeff F]

Perhaps this will be next on the list to recreate:

[minnesota_bound]

She will need a navigator who drinks a lot like Amelia Earhart had. I think his name was Wrong Way Feldman.

[Romulus]

Gimmicky publicity stunt — history repeats itself.

[JoeFromSidney]

Sounds to me like she's trying to live out the dream here parents had for her. Get your own life, girl!