Did anybody also feel that her landing in Whales was completely unrealistic? She came in like a rocket towards the horribly uneven ground and made a short spot landing on top of the hill. WHAT?? Is this a cartoon?
shareShe landed in Whales? What did Greenpeace have to say about that?
shareDunno about Greenpeace. But I heard from reputable sources her disappearence was actually due to Sea Shepherd konking her in the head with a bottle of that stinky acid they throw at people, after she accidently landed on a Whales which they were trying to save from being researched by the Japanese.
Big coverup ensued, since Sea Shepherd KNEW they would get no more operating donations if THAT story got out.
What I heard anyway.
Is this a cartoon?
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Only when you're landing in whales.
Free Willy!
shareThe first time she crossed the Atlantic as a passenger in the Friendship (with Slim Gordon as pilot) they did indeed land on the Welsh coast, at a place called Burry Port. (The Friendship was a seaplane.) They had had hopes of making it to London and putting down in the Thames just beside the Houses of Parliament, but didn't make it that far. That was in June 1928, exactly a year after Lindbergh had made the first successful Atlantic crossing.
Four years later (May of '32), when she made the same flight solo in her Lockheed Vega, she was aiming for Paris (like Lindbergh) but would up putting down at Culmore in northwestern Ireland, just outside Londonderry.
This second journey make her the first person to ever cross the Atlantic twice by airplane.
...Lindbergh had made the first successful solo, non-stop Atlantic crossing.
Actually it is not a cartoon, it's hollyweird.
Don't be too put out, the plane was rolling uphill so it would stop quicker than you might expect. Thick grass does a good job of slowing a plane. hope you liked the movie in spite of that.
that was France, but yes it looked like an odd landing
shareI think you mean Wales.
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I think it was Ireland in fact.
shareNothing but the facts - just like the movie...
shareShe landed in Wales when heading for Ireland, and Ireland when aiming for Paris - so her sense of direction sucked to say the least; letting her do a flight that required her to find a *teeny* island when she couldn't find somewhere as huge as Europe, was probably not the brightest move by her backers was it?
But perhaps she did land in whales; maybe that's why she disappeared. The whale tried to sue for causing it unnecessary suffering and mental stress; let's face it, having a big plane land in your insides is never going to have a hallmark ending is it? So to avoid the wrath of Greenpeace and protesting whales everywhere, she fled to Bogota; where she now lives under the name Peblina Mambo and makes a living selling silk scarves with badly painted prop planes on them.........
Hilarious. How do you land in a Whale?
share@ Larkrise: With great difficulty, a fair wind and a heartfelt prayer to miss the teeth. ;)
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If I wanted your opinion, I'd just study your entrails....
She landed in whales with that seaplane which she didn't pilot, but was a passenger. So the plane just floated into the whales mouth. Then she soloed in her Lockheed Vega and landed in Ireland on porpoise.
shareagreed. Totally unrealistic. After landing in the fourth whale she would have become bored with landing in whales and would have started considering other mammals.
Requisite philosophic tagline: Hamsters eat my _____ and they have very sharp teeth.
More realistic than your spelling.
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