242:. She purchased her first nursing home in 1979, followed soon after by a second nursing home, both of which Finch received loans from family members to help finance the purchases. Finch acquired five more nursing homes over the next two years, with a total of 750 residents. She owns the company Care Centers Management Corporation, a nursing home management company, that in 1997 owned four nursing homes and one retirement property. At that time, her businesses employed 500 people and earned $ 14 million annually. About the time that Finch was landing at Oakland International Airport on May 28, 1997, completing her World Flight 1997, her name was added to a suit filed by the Texas Attorney General's office. The suit, filed in 1994, addressed deficiencies in patient care. Finch stated that any deficiencies were corrected by that time.
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Earhart's route, eastward along the equator — and took 73 days. She was in the air for 225 hours while flying 26,004 nautical miles (41,850 km) and stopping 34 times in 19 countries. The plane has a cruising speed of 90 miles per hour (140 km/h). She
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Earhart re-creation.
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when he clipped the wing of another plane that sat on the runway. The
Corsair's wing split, the plane cartwheeled, and then it burst into flames. Laird's spinal cord was injured, but it was not fractured. He was left with some paralysis.
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said about Finch's flight, "Though others have recreated Earhart's flight, Finch is the first to use the same make and model plane as Earhart and to make the attempt with only a pilot and navigator."
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The country is magnificent! The mountains are covered with jungle, and some of the small hills are covered with what looks like moss. It is very smooth, almost like a carpet in many shades of green.
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equipment. People communicated with her via e-mail and Finch responded with answers to their questions. There were about 30 million times that people viewed the website during Finch's trip.
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educational and motivational program, which enabled students in 200,000 classrooms to follow her flight. Its website was viewed 30 million times.
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1070:"Earhart flight is just one of her high goals - part 1"
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1461:Amelia Earhart: the sky's no limit
1235:"Retracing Earhart 60 years later"
856:Plummer, William (April 7, 1997).
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1110:"Amelia Earhart disappears"
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147:. She flew a restored 1935
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176:Early life and education
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411:Oakland Aviation Museum
283:Commemorative Air Force
277:Finch then purchased a
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1346:on March 27, 2012
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