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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Linda Finch. Timecode In: 00:02:52. Timecode out: 00:20:52. Notes: Amelia Earhart; World Flight 1997. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/National Geographic Society RADIO EXPEDITIONS World Flight 1997 2 way with Linda Finch September 24, 1996 LF = Linda Finch AC = Alex Chadwick 2:52 AC -Tell me what Ms. Earhart set off to do in 1937? LF: On March 17, 1937 Amelia Earhart attempted to fly around the world at the Equator, which would have been a new world record for her. AC -And really for everyone ¬ LF -No one had ever flown around the Equator before. wally Post had flown around the world but not at the Equator, and not at that kind of distances. 3:19 AC -Do you have some sense what Amelia Earhart was as a person? LF -I think so. When I first started the project it was an airplane project and a flight, but I started learning about Amelia, and I really came to feel like I know her. She had a message to deliver, and really worked very hard all of her life to deliver that message. And although Z think that flying was a part of her being, that she really flew in order to get the recognition in order to convince people that they could do what they wanted -that they could have their dreams and do things that were important to them; especially women in the 1930s, but that people were not limited to small lives, that hey could have their dreams. 4:01 4:02 AC: that was her message, you think. LF: that was her message. i have talked to family members, and I have talked to friends of hers -Fagellis Wells (sp?) was a foreign correspondence in the '20s in Russia, and flew with Amelia, and helped formed the 99s -a womens pilot organization with Amelia, and she spent quite a bit of time talking to me about how Amelia felt, and if you listen to the things she said ¬there are tapes of interviews of Amelia. there are articles that she wrote. she was the aviation editor for cosmopolitan magazine, and NG wrote a wonderful article about her about medals she received when she flew the Atlantic. but if you look at the articles that Amelia wrote that message comes through very clearly. AC: has that message inspired your flight? i mean here you are living your dream which in some way is her dream 4:56 LF -certainly. it is a message that i have always believed all my life -that you can do what you want to do -that you have to be very specific about setting a goal and having a dream, and then working at it a little bit each day. when i want something that is very important.... i had a little sticker on my bathroom mirror so every single morning i looked at that and reminded me to do something toward that goal everyday. and i think that is the same message that Amelia had, and something that i really want to communicate to people. 5:30 AC -telling us what you are setting out to do on March 17, 1997. what is your goal? 5:38 LF -On March 17, 1997 I will depart Oakland, California and recreate and complete Amelia Earhart's flight around the world. we will be flying in an aircraft that is the exact same model Amelia flew. It has been modified in the same model that Lockheed modified Amelia's plane, and we will be following the same route that she flew around the world. 5:58 AC -What do you do when you get to that point where she disappeared? LF -well, she only lacked 2 legs, and we know obviously she intended to go from there to Honolulu and Oakland. so we will complete the flight. we will also land before and after Howland island, the area she disappeared, and be over flying Howland and drop a wreath in her memory. 6:18 6:19 AC -when you say you will land before and after Howland island, where are you going to land? bc they were going to that island bc it was the only place to go, weren't they? 6:28 LF -well, it was the only place to go in her ... (Notes truncated)
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