| 词条 | Vicki Van Meter |
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|name=Vicki Van Meter |image=Vicki Van Meter.jpg |alt= |caption=Vicki Van Meter, 11, leaving on her cross-country flight on September 20, 1993. |birth_name=Victoria Louise Van Meter |birth_date={{birth date|1982|3|13}} |birth_place=Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|2008|3|15|1982|3|13}} |death_place=Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_cause=Suicide by gunshot |residence=Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S. (1982–2008) |alma_mater=Edinboro University of Pennsylvania |occupation=Aviator Peace Corps |nationality=American |known for=Long-distance flying as a young pilot |parents=Corinne Van Meter James Van Meter |relatives=Brother: Daniel Van Meter Sister: Elizabeth Van Meter |website=Official website }}Victoria Louise "Vicki" Van Meter (March 13, 1982 – March 15, 2008[1]) was an American aviator. She was known for setting several "youngest pilot" distance-flying records. At the age of 11, she was the youngest "pilot" to fly east to west across the continental United States of America, and the youngest female pilot to cross in either direction.[1][2][3] Early lifeVan Meter first manipulated the controls of an airplane at the age of 10.[4] On September 20, 1993, at the age of 11, she made headlines when she flew from Augusta, Maine to San Diego, California in a Cessna 172.[1] A year later she flew a Cessna 210[5] over the Atlantic Ocean to Scotland.[6] After her flights, she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno[7] and visited the White House. In 2003 she was featured with 36 other female pilots in the traveling exhibit Women and Flight — Portrait of Contemporary Women Pilots,[10][8] based on a book of the same name by Carolyn Russo.[9] Because of the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 9, 1996, after the death of Jessica Dubroff, it is no longer legal in the United States (under 49 USC § 44724) to attempt to set records as a student pilot, which effectively means that some of the records set by Van Meter will never be broken.[10] Personal lifeVan Meter served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova after graduating from Edinboro University with a degree in criminal justice. She worked as an insurance company investigator and had made plans to pursue graduate studies.[11] DeathVan Meter died at her home in Meadville, Pennsylvania on March 15, 2008, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, at the age of 26. Her suicide surprised her family who believed she had been coping with her depression.[11][12][13] See also
References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D91E38F932A1575AC0A965958260|title=Against the Wind, Girl Is Trying to Fly From Coast to Coast|work=The New York Times|date=1993-09-21|accessdate=2008-03-18}} 2. ^{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7259/Aerial-Sports-Year-In-Review-1993|title=Aerial Sports: The year in review|year=1993|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=2011-04-17}} 3. ^The History and Physics of Flight, Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Aeronautics p. 7 . Retrieved 2008-03-18. 4. ^{{cite news|last=Lawson|first=Carol|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD91730F93BA15757C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all| title=At Home With: Vicki Van Meter; Apple Pie And Afterburners|work=The New York Times|date=April 28, 1994|accessdate=2008-03-18}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Walsh|first=Lawrence|title=Pilot, age 12, takes off today to cross the sea|date=1994-07-05|accessdate=2008-03-18|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/08078/866087-85.stm}} 6. ^{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08078/866086-100.stm|title=Pilot who flew cross-country at age 11 commits suicide|date=2008-03-18|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|accessdate=2008-03-18 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080322203639/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08078/866086-100.stm |archivedate = March 22, 2008}} 7. ^{{cite book|last=Van Meter|first=Vicki|title=Taking Flight: My Story By Vicki Van Meter|year=1995|publisher=Viking Juvenile|isbn=0-670-86260-6|page=96}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/cent_of_flight_news.html|title=Woman Aviators Exhibit to Open at Wright Brothers National Memorial|publisher=First Flight Centennial|date=2003-12-03|accessdate=2008-03-18}} 9. ^*{{cite book|last=Russo|first=Carolyn|title=Women and Flight: Portrait of Contemporary Women Pilots|publisher=Bulfinch Press|date=April 1997|location=United States |isbn=0-8212-2168-X|page=192}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/104/hr3539 |title=H.R. 3539 [104th]: Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act of 1996 |publisher=GovTrack.us |accessdate=2010-12-04}} 11. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Plushnick-Masti|first=Ramit|url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/obit_van_meter|title=Record-setting young pilot dies at 26|agency=Associated Press|date=2008-03-18|accessdate=2008-03-18 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080320021516/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/obit_van_meter |archivedate = March 20, 2008}} 12. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://meadvilletribune.com/local/x681029664/Noted-pilot-Vicki-Van-Meter-dies|title=Noted pilot Vicki Van Meter dies|work=The Meadville Tribune|date=2008-03-18|accessdate=2008-03-18}} 13. ^{{cite news|last=Carroll|first=Jim|url=http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NEWS05/803180333/-1/NEWS|title=Ex-child pilot Van Meter dies at home|work=Erie Times-News|date=2008-03-18|accessdate=2008-03-18}} Further reading
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