Word: 10e
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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OAKLAND, California: Flying a 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch set off on a journey to retrace Amelia Earhart's doomed around-the-world route, sixty years to the day after Earhart took off. Finch, an accomplished pilot with 20 years of experience flying and restoring historic aircraft, will make 30 stops in 20 countries during her 2 1/2 month trip, including Egypt, Greece, Pakistan and Australia. While the plane's cabin will remain unpressurized without oxygen tanks, technology will provide a safety margin to help prevent a duplication of Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will...
...armored personnel carrier when it came under heavy enemy fire. An antitank rocket blew off most of Honsinger's right arm, and military papers say he died that day. A police lieutenant, Honsinger finally visited the memorial three weeks ago and saw his name on panel 10E, line 86. "I had some people around [his name on the wall] that I knew. I'm glad I wasn't killed over there, of course. But it gave me a hollow feeling...