Round-the-World Flights

Set Speed Record for Flying Solo Round-the-World

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Scott w/Plane	Barefoot in the Sky	Plane -"Myth Too"	Cover w/Autograph	Scott Autograph

	Sheila Christine Hopkins was born on April 27, 1927 in Worcester, 
Worcestershire, England.  After attending a Worcester boarding school, Sheila 
became a nurse trainee at Haslar Naval Hospital where she tended the wounded during 
WW-II.  She married becoming Sheila Scott and early on she had a dream.  She wanted 
a grandstand seat in life to view the unfolding magical scene of endless changing 
colors in the boundless sky. She became a pilot and chose to fly barefoot. The earth 
was to become her paper and Myth her parable.
	Any plane that she flew would have the name Myth attached to it.  Eventually, 
she purchased a Piper Comanche 260 and named it, "MythToo."  Between 1965 and 1972 
she would be breaking more than 100 light-aircraft records.  In 1966 she and her 
"Myth Too" would fly solo round-the-world in an easterly direction.   She departed 
London on May 19, 1966 and returned there on June 20, 1966 setting a new light 
aircraft speed record for flying solo round-the-world. 
	She lamented, "each flight is a triumph, not only over machinery, weather and 
terrain but over oneself."
	Later, in 1969/70 she would fly solo round-the-world for a second time in "Myth 
Too" and in 1971 in her new Piper Astec plane, "Mythre" would fly solo 
round-the-world for her third time but adding a flight over the North Pole in her 
circumnavigation path.  Sheila was often alone but was never lonely. She passed away 
quietly in London on October 20, 1988. 

Itinerary:

Departed London, England               05/19/66
	Rome, Italy 
	Athens, Greece 
	Damascus, Syria 
	Barhain 
	Karachi, Pakistan 
	Jaipur, India 
	Delhi, India
	Calcutta, India 
	Rangoon, Burma 
	Butterworth, Malaysia 
	Singapore 
	Bali, Indonesia 
	Sumbawa, Indonesia
	Darwin, Australia 
	Mount Isa, Australia
	Brisbane, Australia 
	Sydney, Australia
	Auckland, New Zealand
	Norfolk Island 
	Nandi, Fiji 
	Pago Pago, Samoa 
	Canton Island 
	Honolulu, HI 
	San Francisco, CA
	Phoenix, AZ
	El Paso, TX
	Oklahoma City, OK 
	Louisville, KY
	New York, NY
	Gander, Newfoundland 
	Lagens, Azores 
	Lisbon, Portugal  
Arrived London, England                06/20/66

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