Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located

I prefer to think of a happy ending. Fred and Amelia intentionally ditched the plane and spent the rest of their days in a tropical island love nest.

Prove me wrong.
 
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eman1200 said:
It was proven that Amelia planned the ditching when they reviewed her sim history. She flew that flight repeatedly although on her home sim she flew a bonanza, of course.
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So did she design the bonanza sim and Beech decided it was a good idea, or was this a project of the Beech skunk works years before release of the Bonanza?
 
Bob Noel said:
well, people are looking for various sailing ships that went down hundreds of years ago.
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If she really were spying on Japan then maybe something on board would be historically interesting, like Godzilla’s DNA, or alien technology the Japanese discovered but couldn’t implement before the war
 
Randomskylane said:
If she really were spying on Japan then maybe something on board would be historically interesting, like Godzilla’s DNA, or alien technology the Japanese discovered but couldn’t implement before the war
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It was aerial spying, so they’re just looking for the SD card from her phone.
 
I never understood why attempting to be the first female pilot to fly around the world with a male navigator received so much fanfare. “Turn 5° right”.
 
Personal trivia-warning, extremely tangential.
Earharts’s electra was shipped back to California from HI for rebuild by Lockheed, aboard the Matson line steamship SS Lurline.

20 years later, the same steamship (renovated and retrofitted) carried my parents from San Francisco to HI for the longest posting of my father’s career, at Schofield barracks.
 

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Kenny Phillips said:
Yeah, but one "historical" flight with a pretty lady,
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Dwayne said:
There was a "pretty lady" aboard?
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Well, "pretty" is a matter of taste, but I suppose if your preference is for gap-toothed and skinny then she might qualify. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, after all.

OTOH, no true "lady" would write this to her betrothed immediately prior to her wedding:

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The chauvinism sure is strong in this thread.

I think the rule should be that if you're going to publicly comment on the appearance of a woman, you should post pictures of your wife/girlfriend and daughters.
 
Lindberg said:
The chauvinism sure is strong in this thread.

I think the rule should be that if you're going to publicly comment on the appearance of a woman, you should post pictures of your wife/girlfriend and daughters.
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That might present a problem for those with illicit affairs
 
Lindberg said:
The chauvinism sure is strong in this thread.

I think the rule should be that if you're going to publicly comment on the appearance of a woman, you should post pictures of your wife/girlfriend and daughters.
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Your solution to what you see as chauvinism is to objectify women and even children without giving them any say in the matter, as a punishment to the men in their lives? Just a small step further and you'll be in full lock step with Sharia Law. If Protector-of-All-Women (Even the Dead Ones) was a hired position instead of self appointed, I think you'd be out of a job.
 
squincher said:
Your solution to what you see as chauvinism is to objectify women and even children without giving them any say in the matter, as a punishment to the men in their lives? Just a small step further and you'll be in full lock step with Sharia Law. If Protector-of-All-Women (Even the Dead Ones) was a hired position instead of self appointed, I think you'd be out of a job.
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It's not chauvinistic or sexist to describe a woman as attractive when it's germane to the discussion. In this case, Amelia's appearance is indeed a factor in her popularity; publishers and advertisers have long known that sex sells. If she was fat and ugly would her face have been plastered all over the newspapers as it was?

Although, I described her as "cute" rather than "pretty" (personal opinion), two terms that overlap but are not the same thing. Though "photogenic" might be more appropriate.
 
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What’s that movie line where one actress says "She's pretty, but she's not real smart"?
 
Half Fast said:
Well, "pretty" is a matter of taste, but I suppose if your preference is for gap-toothed and skinny then she might qualify. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, after all.

OTOH, no true "lady" would write this to her betrothed immediately prior to her wedding:

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That certainly seems to confirm the theory/notion/report or whatever that their marriage was primarily a financial relationship
 
Lindberg said:
I'd explain it, but if you didn't understand without the explanation, you won't understand with the explanation.
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You can spare me any more pictures or platitudes. I've been speaking and reading English my entire life and understood each and every word. If you meant something other than what you wrote that's on you, but since your inner white knight comes out every time a woman is mentioned, I'm sure I've got your number. At least you didn't fall back on the trite "I was trying to make you think," so kudos there.
 
squincher said:
You can spare me any more pictures or platitudes. I've been speaking and reading English my entire life and understood each and every word. If you meant something other than what you wrote that's on you, but since your inner white knight comes out every time a woman is mentioned, I'm sure I've got your number. At least you didn't fall back on the trite "I was trying to make you think," so kudos there.
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You were apparently a brilliant infant, but I would still never try to make you think; I haven't that much free time.
 
Half Fast said:
Well, "pretty" is a matter of taste, but I suppose if your preference is for gap-toothed and skinny then she might qualify. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, after all.

OTOH, no true "lady" would write this to her betrothed immediately prior to her wedding:

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Boy, you would've really disliked Beryl Markham. :lol:
 
Brad W said:
so maybe it's based on an assumption, but I thought that she was in some way legendary....as in like a legendarily accomplished pilot
Was it only because she was a female pilot in a time when there were very few female pilots?
What's the basis for considering her to be mediocre?
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I can't speak to her skill as a pilot, but I expect that a lot of her fame came as a breaker of glass ceilings as much as anything else - and that's definitely worth something.

Regardless, if this mystery spot has been known in photographs since 1938 I find it hard to imagine it hasn't been fairly well checked out by now; I'll be surprised if anything interesting turns up there.
 
Zeldman said:
Oh wait, here it is, I found the plane.

It's been parked behind the barn all this time...
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That's what I like about being old. You go poking around the shop or the hangar and you find stuff that you didn't know you had. It's just like Christmas! The other day I found that I own a 0-1" Depth Micrometer. It's been in a wooden box in my tool box for decades. Who knew?
 
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