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By Di Freeze
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As
a little girl growing up in Holy Loch, a small village in Scotland, Grace
McGuire knew she would one day be a pilot. When she entered her teen years,
she found work at a local airport, during summer months, as a ground hostess.
"I used to go to the flight school and chat with the pilots but they didn't have much time for me," said McGuire, at her home in Rumson, N.J. "I loved to talk to the old-timers."
In the 1960s, McGuire visited the United States. While there, her passion for vintage aircraft led her to New Jersey airports, and, shortly before she turned 18, to her first flying lesson at the now defunct Red Bank Airport in New Jersey.
"I went with an English friend of mine who was here babysitting for the summer," she said. "We had enough money for about a half hour each."
Soon, McGuire began hearing the same comment: "You look just like Amelia Earhart!"
"Who is that?" McGuire asked --once.
"Listen kid," one old-timer said. "In aviation circles, you don't ask, 'Amelia who?'"
Over the years, the resemblance--down to the short, tousled hair--continued to be noticed.
"We had the same contour and we were both tall and skinny," McGuire said.
Curious about her look-alike, McGuire would later get her hands on every book about Earhart she could. She read with excitement about her life, including her plans to fly around the world, in 1937, in a twin-engine 1936 Lockheed Electra L-10E.
She was dismayed to discover that Earhart and her navigator had disappeared off the coast of New Guinea, while looking for Howland Island, and that neither they nor the aircraft had ever been found.
It might have been the resemblance to Earhart, or it might have been her apparent passion for aviation, but McGuire was soon accepted into the "inner circle." She remembers a particular day, after taking a few lessons, when, as she was leaving the airport, she was stopped by a couple of those "old-timers."
"Look, don't keep running off," she heard. "Hang around after your lesson and do a little hangar bumming; we'll take you for rides."
But soon, McGuire headed home to Scotland. However, she returned to New Jersey in the late 1960s, and reestablished her friendships. In the early 1970s, when she could afford it, she began working towards getting her private pilot license at Preston Airport (now Marlboro Airport).
"I babysat and tended gardens to pay for the lessons," McGuire said. Forty-three hours of flight time later, in 1972, McGuire flew to the Bahamas, through the Devil's Triangle, in a Cessna 150. She found the flight exhilarating.
She was soon working towards getting her other licenses and ratings, which would eventually include instructor and commercial ratings, as well as multi-engine land and sea and instrument ratings.
After earning her instructor rating, Dorothy Fenwick, co-owner of Preston Airport, offered McGuire a job as an instructor. Although she was later offered a job with a major airline as a co-pilot, she turned it down.
"I loved only vintage aircraft," she said. "I was born too late; I should have been a barnstormer."
But McGuire would do her fair share of barnstorming, as well as flying air taxis between New Jersey and South Carolina, seaplanes and helicopters, and even the occasional fighter aircraft.
Her involvement in New Jersey aviation would extend to being a captain in the Civil Air Patrol and a member of a local 99 chapter.
It was at an air show in North Jersey, in 1979, that the aviatrix was "discovered." As she stepped from the plane, a photographer asked if he could take her picture.
"I was very shy," McGuire said. "I said no and started to walk away, then a friend of mine told me to do it. I didn't know it at the time but the organizers of the air show had asked him to look for an Amelia-look-alike." McGuire's picture appeared in the local newspaper, with the caption, "Amelia is back."
An idea had begun to form in her mind. It was at another air show that McGuire revealed it to friends.
"I opened my big mouth and said I was going to finish her flight for her," she said. "I thought it would be a nice tribute."
At first, McGuire talked about just "finishing" the flight. Later, she decided she wanted the same challenges Earhart had. She wanted to make the entire trip. And, she wanted to do it Earhart's way--the "old-fashioned way."
This meant circumnavigating the globe in the exact aircraft model, with the same equipment, and taking three and a half months, with 32 stops along the way.
She believed she had the determination and skills to make the trip, but she was minus a few needed ingredients, including the aircraft, a Lockheed Electra L-10E, of which only 15 were built.
When McGuire began searching for one, she was told that all had been scrapped, and that she might have to convert a 10A. But, she kept looking. And, she kept researching.
She wanted to make sure her flight didn't end like Earhart's.
In the book, "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved," published in 1999, authors Elgin M. Long and Marie K. Long revealed their findings that Howland Island was actually six miles east of the position shown on Earhart's chart.
Over a decade before the book was published, McGuire, after studying Earhart's navigational charts and flight plan, and charting the coordinates navigator Fred Noonan had for the trip, came up with the same conclusion.
"She was using 100-year old British admiralty charts with the wrong coordinates," she said. =:::~-->>
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"I used to go to the flight school and chat with the pilots but they didn't have much time for me," said McGuire, at her home in Rumson, N.J. "I loved to talk to the old-timers."
In the 1960s, McGuire visited the United States. While there, her passion for vintage aircraft led her to New Jersey airports, and, shortly before she turned 18, to her first flying lesson at the now defunct Red Bank Airport in New Jersey.
"I went with an English friend of mine who was here babysitting for the summer," she said. "We had enough money for about a half hour each."
Soon, McGuire began hearing the same comment: "You look just like Amelia Earhart!"
"Who is that?" McGuire asked --once.
"Listen kid," one old-timer said. "In aviation circles, you don't ask, 'Amelia who?'"
Over the years, the resemblance--down to the short, tousled hair--continued to be noticed.
"We had the same contour and we were both tall and skinny," McGuire said.
Curious about her look-alike, McGuire would later get her hands on every book about Earhart she could. She read with excitement about her life, including her plans to fly around the world, in 1937, in a twin-engine 1936 Lockheed Electra L-10E.
She was dismayed to discover that Earhart and her navigator had disappeared off the coast of New Guinea, while looking for Howland Island, and that neither they nor the aircraft had ever been found.
It might have been the resemblance to Earhart, or it might have been her apparent passion for aviation, but McGuire was soon accepted into the "inner circle." She remembers a particular day, after taking a few lessons, when, as she was leaving the airport, she was stopped by a couple of those "old-timers."
"Look, don't keep running off," she heard. "Hang around after your lesson and do a little hangar bumming; we'll take you for rides."
But soon, McGuire headed home to Scotland. However, she returned to New Jersey in the late 1960s, and reestablished her friendships. In the early 1970s, when she could afford it, she began working towards getting her private pilot license at Preston Airport (now Marlboro Airport).
"I babysat and tended gardens to pay for the lessons," McGuire said. Forty-three hours of flight time later, in 1972, McGuire flew to the Bahamas, through the Devil's Triangle, in a Cessna 150. She found the flight exhilarating.
She was soon working towards getting her other licenses and ratings, which would eventually include instructor and commercial ratings, as well as multi-engine land and sea and instrument ratings.
After earning her instructor rating, Dorothy Fenwick, co-owner of Preston Airport, offered McGuire a job as an instructor. Although she was later offered a job with a major airline as a co-pilot, she turned it down.
"I loved only vintage aircraft," she said. "I was born too late; I should have been a barnstormer."
But McGuire would do her fair share of barnstorming, as well as flying air taxis between New Jersey and South Carolina, seaplanes and helicopters, and even the occasional fighter aircraft.
Her involvement in New Jersey aviation would extend to being a captain in the Civil Air Patrol and a member of a local 99 chapter.
It was at an air show in North Jersey, in 1979, that the aviatrix was "discovered." As she stepped from the plane, a photographer asked if he could take her picture.
"I was very shy," McGuire said. "I said no and started to walk away, then a friend of mine told me to do it. I didn't know it at the time but the organizers of the air show had asked him to look for an Amelia-look-alike." McGuire's picture appeared in the local newspaper, with the caption, "Amelia is back."
An idea had begun to form in her mind. It was at another air show that McGuire revealed it to friends.
"I opened my big mouth and said I was going to finish her flight for her," she said. "I thought it would be a nice tribute."
At first, McGuire talked about just "finishing" the flight. Later, she decided she wanted the same challenges Earhart had. She wanted to make the entire trip. And, she wanted to do it Earhart's way--the "old-fashioned way."
This meant circumnavigating the globe in the exact aircraft model, with the same equipment, and taking three and a half months, with 32 stops along the way.
She believed she had the determination and skills to make the trip, but she was minus a few needed ingredients, including the aircraft, a Lockheed Electra L-10E, of which only 15 were built.
When McGuire began searching for one, she was told that all had been scrapped, and that she might have to convert a 10A. But, she kept looking. And, she kept researching.
She wanted to make sure her flight didn't end like Earhart's.
In the book, "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved," published in 1999, authors Elgin M. Long and Marie K. Long revealed their findings that Howland Island was actually six miles east of the position shown on Earhart's chart.
Over a decade before the book was published, McGuire, after studying Earhart's navigational charts and flight plan, and charting the coordinates navigator Fred Noonan had for the trip, came up with the same conclusion.
"She was using 100-year old British admiralty charts with the wrong coordinates," she said. =:::~-->>
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