Comments on: Aviation trivia http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=549 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Sun, 19 May 2013 17:43:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Todd http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=549&cpage=1#comment-12844 Todd Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:23:44 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=549#comment-12844 Was Amelia Earhart the first woman and also the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic? That is my guess. Final answer.

Oddly enough most people answer Amelia to the question “Who was the first woman to fly around the world solo”. The correct answer is Jeri Mock. Here amazing story was told in the book “Three-Eight Charlie”. Dan Pimentel is hoping to make her story into a movie. Check it out:
http://www.three-eightcharlie.com/.

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