Amelia Earhart

low-wing, two engines, faster and more capable than the single-engine aircraft of his early career, able to carry real payloads over the distances Alaska demanded.

The Electra was a modern machine for its time, the same basic design that Amelia Earhart had been flying when she disappeared over the Pacific in 1937.

Think about what that kind of flying meant to the people waiting at the other end of the route.

A mining camp in the Wrangell Mountains in February temperature 30 below, a worker with appendicitis, the nearest surgeon in Anchorage, 300 miles away.

And I was like, all right.

Reminds me of a young Amelia Earhart.

Earhart.

Yes.

like nobody's doing.

Okay, he's got more lore.

Wait, what? So yes to Amelia Earhart, my great-grandma, the mom of my hundred-year-old grandma, was definitely fucking Amelia Earhart.

They had like a long, delightful- Is there new developments in this? There is a new development.

I think there's a lot more strength and depth in this year's, uh, renewal.

And I don't think Fallen Angel, I think it's fair to say in what she's done this year, she's not the filly that she was last year.

And she's better with plenty of juice in the ground as well.

And I don't know, I don't think there's much rain forecast, uh, for Leopardstown.

She's beaten, uh, Precise, uh, last two, uh, encounters in the Falmouth, and then in the, uh, Prix de Rothschild.

I think she'd be very hard to beat.

She's a better filly this year than she was last year, and we all know these fillies, when they, when they keep on improving, you just don't know where the ceiling lies with her.

She sets a very good standard.

Okay.

Such as, obviously, Amelia Earhart.

Sure.

There was the Flying Tiger line flight of 1972 that vanished.

228 people disappeared without a trace.

Okay.

However, both those other, not talking about Amelia Earhart's, but the other two that I mentioned had more records that was recovered and a lot less unusual behavior, which is why still Malaysia 370 is still the one that flags everyone back.

I was going to say

Let's talk about the silver bird and the girl with the tousled hair who flew it straight into the great unknown.

Let's talk about Miss Amelia Earhart.

Now, folks back then, they called her Lady Lindy.

She had a smile that could disarm a bank robber and the kind of restless spirit that just couldn't abide keeping her feet on the ground.

Question number forty.

Who was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? [chime] Amelia Earhart.

Question forty-one.

What is the top number in a fraction called? [chime] Numerator.