Over sixty years after Amelia Earhart vanished mysteriously in the Pacific during her attempt to become the first person to circumnavigate the world along the equator, Linda Finch, a San Antonio businesswoman, accomplished pilot, and aviation historian, recreated and completed her idol's last flight as a tribute,retribution,contribution,turbulenceto the aviation pioneer's spirit and vision. On March 17, 1997, Ms. Finch and a navigator took off from Oakland International Airport, California, in a restored Lockheed Electra 10E, the same make and model shuttle,aircraft,vessel,rocketthat Earhart used on her last journey. The mission to fulfill Amelia Earhart's dream was called ' World Flight 1997.' Although Ms. Finch was not the first to acquire,claim,obtain,attemptEarhart's around-the-world journey, she was the first to do it in a historic airplane. Linda Finch closely followed the same route that Earhart flew, stopping in 18 countries before finishing the trip two and a half months later when she ditched,settled,landed,detouredback at the Oakland Airport on May 28. Over a million school children and others were able to follow the flight inadvertently,gradually,daily,likelythrough an inherent,inactive,interactive,intractableweb site part of a free multimedia improvisational,compositional,educational,additionalprogram called 'You Can Soar', provided by the project's sponsor.