Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located

I'm not sure who said this before, but I still have to agree with it. This isn't cruelty, I'm being realistic here. Guys, I just don't think we're going to reach her in time. It might be best to prepare yourself for the worst.
 
bflynn said:
I'm not sure who said this before, but I still have to agree with it. This isn't cruelty, I'm being realistic here. Guys, I just don't think we're going to reach her in time. It might be best to prepare yourself for the worst.
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Excessive corrosion?
 
bflynn said:
I'm not sure who said this before, but I still have to agree with it. This isn't cruelty, I'm being realistic here. Guys, I just don't think we're going to reach her in time. It might be best to prepare yourself for the worst.
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Are you talking about Amelia or the airplane.??
 
Rumor I heard is that she was running a bar on Kwajalein with Jimmy Buffet up until a few years ago. It was the only place secure enough for them, after their combined work on rum based cloud seeding.
 
FPK1 said:
Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located, research team claims

...The underwater object has been visible in photos dating back to 1938, the year after Earhart and Noonan disappeared...
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Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located, research team claims

Researchers say they believe an object in a South Pacific island's lagoon is the wreck of Amelia Earhart's lost plane.
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THEY SAID HER AIRPLANE WAS FOUND AND SO ON YEARS AGO.AS FAR AS IM CONCERN,THEIR IS NO CONCRET EVIDENCE THIS IS TRUE,ONLY RUMORS
SORRY FOR THIS,I WANT TO BELIEVE THIS BUT THEIR HAS TO BE REAL EVIDENCE?
 
Preparations are in the final stages for the latest expedition to the South Pacific to gain a closer look at what may be the Lockheed Electra 10-E flown by Amelia Earhart during her round-the-world flight attempt in 1937...

www.flyingmag.com

Earhart Expedition Prepares for South Pacific Search

Multifaceted group heads to Nikamuroro to see if that weird, shiny thing in the lagoon is part of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.
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I just love the way these people support their thesis…
“Other evidence already collected by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) establishes an extremely persuasive, multifaceted case that the final destination for Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, was on Nikumaroro. Confirming the plane wreckage would be the smoking-gun proof.”

Of course, from the original article posted in the OP: “However, Ric Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, has expressed skepticism. "We've looked there in that spot, and there's nothing there," he told NBC News in July.”


On a totally unrelated note, the author of this latest article “excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve.”
I thought a steeper learning curve was better. ;)
 
markair said:
THEY SAID HER AIRPLANE WAS FOUND AND SO ON YEARS AGO.AS FAR AS IM CONCERN,THEIR IS NO CONCRET EVIDENCE THIS IS TRUE,ONLY RUMORS
SORRY FOR THIS,I WANT TO BELIEVE THIS BUT THEIR HAS TO BE REAL EVIDENCE?
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I want to believe.......

 
The fact that neither Earhart, or Noonan knew Morris code doomed the flight from the start. Earhart had the Morse code key removed from the plane calling it "Dead weight" because neither of them knew how to use it.
 
Albany Tom said:
If this article is correct, and it's a pretty decent source, they didn't understand DF gear or HF radio equipment, either.

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They bet everything on celestial navigation. Problem is, when it is daylight and your only reference is the sun, celestial navigation isn't particularly accurate in 2 dimensions and they were looking for a tiny little island mixed in among cloud shadows on the water.
 
In WW 2, trained military navigators failed to find Wake, Midway, and other islands, and broke radio silence to get DF steers back begore they ran out of fuel. Some waited too long, and died. Not as famously as Amelia, though, and remain undiscovered.

I worked with an ex Airforce radio man on a flight that needed DF to reach his destination, and arrived with zero on the gauges, but still running. He made 2 trans Pacific flights and years of over the Hump, India to China. He was barely 21 when the war ended.

There are still planes that crashed going over the Hump that have not been found. A more fertile field to search, but who cares? Their parents died decades ago, any wives are gone too. The few who had wives plus children, most of those had not even met their fathers, so the few who are still alive have no interest, so we keep hunting Amelia.

Sadness and sarcasm all mixed up, here.
 
Look up Eddie Rickenbacker’s ordeal. 20+ days on a raft in the pacific because of faulty navigation while being transported via B-17.
 
FPK1 said:
Purdue and ALI cite permit delays and weather conditions for postponement of Amelia Earhart search to 2026...

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Amelia Earhart Expedition Postponed

Purdue and ALI cite permit delays and weather conditions for postponement of Amelia Earhart search.
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So you're saying there's still time for me to join the project and get an all-expenses-paid vacation?
 
She was rescued by the USS Scorpion in 1968. Her last words were "what happens if I turn this valve?" The captain, who actually survived that car ride in Dallas, had the very last word, which was "You know, as a family, we're not really that good at this ocean thing."

Too soon?
 
Brad Smith said:
We’re looking for a small aircraft with 2 crew that was lost 88 years ago but still can’t find MH370 with 277 souls that disappeared a few years ago. Seems like there’s more interest in finding Amelia‘s airplane than MH370. Most aircraft that have disappeared are searched for a short time and then regarded as unable to locate and no more effort is expended. To keep looking after 88 years borders on the ridiculous.
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I agree. Besides, the aluminum in the plane will be long gone. Not that she's around to enjoy the fame, but she's probably more famous for getting lost, and never found, than if she'd actually completed the flight.
 
kell490 said:
The fact that neither Earhart, or Noonan knew Morris code doomed the flight from the start. Earhart had the Morse code key removed from the plane calling it "Dead weight" because neither of them knew how to use it.
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FREDERICK J. NOONAN: From personal observation, the writer knows that as of late 1935 Noonan could send and receive plain language at slow speeds, around eight to ten words per minute. Recent research by Noonan biographer Michael A. Lang has revealed that circa 1931 Noonan held a Second Class Commercial Radio operator license issued by the Radio Division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The license, which was valid for two years, certified that the holder was capable of: “Transmitting and sound reading at a speed of not less than sixteen words a minute Continental Morse in code groups and twenty words a minute in plain language”.
 
"A satellite image may finally lift the veil on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, one of aviation’s greatest mysteries"

Pretty much the same old stuff except there is some good historical information on other searches near the end of the article...

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A satellite image may finally lift the veil on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, one of aviation’s greatest mysteries

A satellite screenshot spotted over a turquoise lagoon on Nikumaroro has revived the debate over what happened to Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan
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Albany Tom said:
She was rescued by the USS Scorpion in 1968. Her last words were "what happens if I turn this valve?" The captain, who actually survived that car ride in Dallas, had the very last word, which was "You know, as a family, we're not really that good at this ocean thing."

Too soon?
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I dunno. A while back I saw a couple of documentary where she was giving tours at the Smithsonian.
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And at Space Camp.
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Along with Glenn Miller and his band.
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Can’t argue with documentaries. :ihih:
 
In case someone has a lot of time on their hands, here's a recently posted interview with TIGHAR's Ric Gillespie:


The interviewer previously posted this review of available evidence:

 
In case it hasn't been mentioned previously, TIGHAR has a discussion forum:

TIGHAR - Index

TIGHAR - Index
tighar.org
 
I believe that they're sincerely looking for Amelia. However, I believe that the Amelia they're looking for may be a 20 yr old dancer that was born somewhere in SE Asia.

All in jest...
 
asicer said:
If ever there were a thread title ripe for inviting necroposting...
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This thread is less than five months old. There was a slightly newer thread, but it had very few posts.
 
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