Amelia Rose Earhart circles world in single-engine plane

It's been said "there's something in a name," and now a Denver woman named for pilot Amelia Earhart is celebrating a feat her namesake could not. She just circled the world in a single-engine plane.

Amelia Rose Earhart's 24,300-mile trip took 18 days. She landed in California Friday afternoon.

Earhart says she and her co-pilot felt like they had Amelia there with them the whole time. She said, "We had a wonderful flight back from, 'Where were we?' from Honolulu. Completely safe. We had a picture there of Amelia in the cockpit with us."

Earhart, at 31 years old, is now the youngest woman to have traveled around the world in a single-engine plane.