Correção de texto: Old betsy

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“Got to the hangar and fired up old Betsy. Yours truly, the handsome young, fearless pilot was going to challenge the unknown of the Amazon wilderness. Paul said he thought it would be a good time to catch up on his sleep. So I plowed through the skies while Paul snoozed, caught up on Readers Digests, and ate caramel candy. ’Hey Mike, look how nice the candy box fits in the hole where the radio used to be.’ Paul carefully checked the compass once in a while as I zig-zagged along, trying to follow some map printed in the 1940s.