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- <text id=93TT0325>
- <title>
- Oct. 04, 1993: Amelia, Meet Victoria
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 04, 1993 On The Trail Of Terror
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 93
- Amelia, Meet Victoria
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- <body>
- <p>SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
- </p>
- <p> While airborne, she fought turbulence and nausea, but what counts
- is that VICTORIA VAN METER, 11, held on to the controls for
- the entire trip. Last week she became the youngest girl ever
- to fly cross-country. (The youngest kid? A 9-year-old-ugh-boy.)
- In a flight that took her from Augusta, Maine, to San Diego
- in four hops--with breaks for sleep--she logged more than
- 60 hours in the air. The budding Amelia Earhart was accompanied
- by a flight instructor, but he says he didn't have to help out
- at all. When she touched down in San Diego, a crowd of 100 was
- waiting to see her emerge from her tiny Cessna, wearing a flight
- suit and a smile full of braces. "It doesn't really matter what
- age you are," says Van Meter, in an observation that's usually
- made by her elders. "It matters what you think, and how you
- feel."
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- </body>
- </article>
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