Tracking Back 2008: Vicki Van Meter was an American pilot known for setting several youngest-pilot distance-flying records. At age 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. Vicki Van Meter,the Pennsylvanian who was celebrated for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the United States to Europe at age 12, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her...
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