June 5, 1994

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Joel Byers

On June 5, 1994, 12 year-old Vicki Van Meter took off from Maine in a Cessna 210 and flew to Scotland. She followed the route that Amelia Earhart had previously taken and became the youngest female pilot to cross the Atlantic. Thus scientifically proving that a woman’s sense of direction doesn’t become muddled and confused until around the age of 15 or 16, thereafter requiring them to use a map or Garmin to find their way from one city to the next.

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About Joel Byers

Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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