Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located

I'm sure they'll find just enough evidence to justify 10 more years of research and then return in year 100 at which point I'm positive they will find her. If they don't find her by 2037 I will start have doubt that it will ever happen. :rolleyes:
 
Half Fast said:
You’re both right. She made two transatlantic flights: as a passenger in 1928 and as a solo pilot in 1932.
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Except that my statement didn’t exclude the other; his did. Yes, she was a passenger in 1928 (it wasn’t a flight she was supposed to have flown and “someone else did most of the actual flying” - she was a passenger), and in 1932 she flew it solo.
 
Really Purdue??

17 total people including the Purdue general counsel got a lovely South Pacific island vacation using other people’s money?

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The Taraia Object expedition team included:

  • Rick Pettigrew, ALI, project director
  • Steve Schultz, Purdue general counsel, field assistant
  • Laura Kennedy, ALI, technology specialist
  • Philippa Jorissen, ALI, terrestrial archaeologist
  • Ren LaRocca, ALI, assistant
  • Sirisha Bandla, Purdue alumna, technology specialist
  • Marc Hagle, Purdue alumnus, field assistant
  • Meere Kenana, curator, Kiribati Culture and Museum, Kiribati representative
  • Agnes Naare, Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development, Kiribati representative
  • Heidi Boraia-Tangata, Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development, Kiribati representative
  • Michael Krivor, RECON Offshore, maritime archaeologist
  • William Wilson, RECON Offshore, maritime archaeologist
  • Aaron Arrants, medic and safety officer
  • Helmut Schleppi, filmmaker
  • Ella Van Cleave, filmmaker
  • David Pearson, filmmaker
  • Matt Maddaloni, filmmaker
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Search for Amelia Earhart’s plane continues after Taraia Object expedition on Nikumaroro rules out latest hypothesis

NIKUMARORO, Kiribati — The Taraia Object expedition, a joint effort by the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI), Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University, announced Monday, Oct. 19…
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“The $900,000 expedition, which concluded on October 18, 2026, after discovering the suspected plane wreckage was actually a clump of washed-up trees, was funded by Richard Pettigrew (executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute) using a line of credit provided by Purdue University.“
 
MauleSkinner said:
Don’t jockey throttles for directional control. Use the rudder.
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The Aerodynamic Consequence


Leaving the rudders at stock specifications meant that when the plane was packed to its 15,000+ pound overload weight, it was incredibly difficult to control at slow speeds. [1]
During her final takeoffs, the rudders lacked the aerodynamic surface authority to easily counteract any sudden engine torque or severe crosswinds on the ground. This reduced control margin heavily contributed to her catastrophic ground-loop accident at Luke Field in March 1937, where the plane veered wildly out of control before the landing gear collapsed. [1]
 
ElPaso Pilot said:
“The $900,000 expedition, which concluded on October 18, 2026, after discovering the suspected plane wreckage was actually a clump of washed-up trees, was funded by Richard Pettigrew (executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute) using a line of credit provided by Purdue University.“
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Student funded island extravaganza. Good gig if you cash get it!
 
ElPaso Pilot said:
Really Purdue??

17 total people including the Purdue general counsel got a lovely South Pacific island vacation using other people’s money?
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To be serious I highly doubt its was a "lovely" island vacation. Accommodations were likely not 5 star. The donar is free to spend their own money on whatever they want correct? Moreover Purdue has been involved in this endeavor for over 90 years.
 
The plane is probably 150 miles NW of Howland and in 17k feet of water.

She was a garbage pilot. Turns out, she had a radio operator at the beginning of this stunt and he noped out early on because she was dangerous.
 
Are we sure it's the university and not the chicken company? Because you could probably feed the "mechanically separated chicken" machine with crab, and make hot dogs and snack food out of it.
 
A tree, it was a crusty shiny dead tree

Evidence gathered at the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro confirmed that the visual anomaly first seen in satellite imagery in 2020 was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula’s sandspit. By the time the team arrived at the site, a good portion of the debris had fragmented and washed away, leaving only a single Y-shaped segment — a fraction of the anomaly’s original size observed in imagery when the Taraia Object hypothesis was developed.
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https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/202...on-on-nikumaroro-rules-out-latest-hypothesis/
 
ElPaso Pilot said:
“The $900,000 expedition, which concluded on October 18, 2026, after discovering the suspected plane wreckage was actually a clump of washed-up trees, was funded by Richard Pettigrew (executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute) using a line of credit provided by Purdue University.“
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Never look a grift horse in the mouth.
 
FlightmechH3 said:
The plane is probably 150 miles NW of Howland and in 17k feet of water.

She was a garbage pilot. Turns out, she had a radio operator at the beginning of this stunt and he noped out early on because she was dangerous.
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Reminds me of certain present-day YouTube pilots who have been more interested in fame and money raising than paying attention to the requirements of safe flight.
 
Palmpilot said:
Reminds me of certain present-day YouTube pilots who have been more interested in fame and money raising than paying attention to the requirements of safe flight.
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Nothing ever changes. Just like Jenny Blalock
 
Dana said:
Everybody knows what happened to Earhart. A mediocre pilot with an alcoholic navigator encouraged by a publicity hound husband headed out in an inadequately equipped airplane expecting to make a nearly impossible destination, and got lost and ran out of fuel. Surprise, surprise. The only unknown is exactly where. If it wasn't for the fact that she was kinda cute nobody would even care. Imagine if she'd had YouTube and TikTok...
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1. The Timeline of the "Drinking" Rumor
The rumor did not exist in public records during Noonan's lifetime. Noonan was celebrated as one of the finest celestial navigators in the world, responsible for pioneering and mapping Pan Am’s transpacific China Clipper routes. [1, 2]
The widespread story of his alcoholism did not appear in print until 1966, nearly 30 years after his disappearance, with the publication of The Search for Amelia Earhart by Frederick Goerner. Goerner’s claims reportedly relied on an alleged 1937 police report that has never been found. Later biographers repeated the claim, with some sensationalized accounts alleging Noonan had to be "poured" onto the plane or dragged out of whorehouses in Manila—claims that are completely without documentary support
 
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