Amelia_Earhart - Pilot Linda Finch attempts to fly around the world

Pilot Linda Finch attempts to fly around the world

OCP97031701-17 MAR 97-OAKLAND,CALIFORNIA,USA: Pilot Linda Finch poses in front of her Lockheed Electra 10E, March 17, before taking off from Oakland International Airport in an attempt to fly around the world at the equator, 60 years to the day that famed aviator Amelia Earhart attempted the same feat from the same airport. UPI dy/David Yee


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CLEVELAND, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- DNA analysis of what was believed to be a strand of Amelia Earhart's hair found the item was actually thread, a Cleveland aviation museum said.
FAIRFIELD, N.J., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The president of The 99s, an organization of women pilots, has honored actress Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair for their work on "Amelia," a film about pioneering U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
'Amelia' to open Qatar film fest
DOHA, Qatar, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Mira Nair's "Amelia" is set to open the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival in Qatar, organizers announced Tuesday.
McGregor joins cast of Earhart bio-pic
LOS ANGELES, May 27 (UPI) -- Scottish actor Ewan McGregor reportedly is set to co-star with Hilary Swank in the big-screen Amelia Earhart biography "Amelia."
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SAN DIEGO, April 18 (UPI) -- General Dynamics' NASSCO unit has started work on a new U.S. Navy cargo ammunition ship.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Hilary Swank has signed on to star in and executive produce a bio-pic about 1930s-era, pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 11, 2008.
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SAN DIEGO, July 27 (UPI) -- Employees at a San Diego shipyard are trying to figure out how to get an engine the size of a large bus out of the sinkhole created by its fall.
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nytimes.com at 23 Oct 2009 02:35 pm
Excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production about Amelia Earhart.
huffingtonpost.com at 23 Oct 2009 08:08 am
Editor's note: In honor of today's release of Fox Searchlight's "Amelia," we're re-publishing this post. It originally ran on July 20th. Unlike aviators lost in the sky,...
cnn.com at 23 Oct 2009 07:58 am
"Amelia" is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman...
time.com at 23 Oct 2009 06:00 am
Mira Nair's portrait of Amelia Earhart captures the details but misses the life
washingtontimes.com at 23 Oct 2009 04:45 am
Amelia Earhart, the new film about her tells us, was once the most famous woman in America — if not the world. She was the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, a...
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