Posted on 09/10/2016 4:34:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
DID Amelia Earhart survive her plane crash? This is the most likely theory, with evidence emerging that she was making contact for days after her plane disappeared.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) believes Earhart safely landed her plane when it disappeared in 1937 and died as a castaway.
During a presentation in the US last month, TIGHAR’s Ric Gillespie backed up all of the group’s theories.
Earhart’s plane was last seen on the radar on July 2, 1937.
After becoming the first woman pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she embarked on a mission to fly 47,000km around the world.
But on July 2 1937, four months after beginning her trip, she found herself in trouble.
She was flying at 375m looking for Howland Island, southwest of Honolulu, but was low on fuel.
It is believed she was not as close to the island as expected so she safety landed on another island, believed to be Nikumaroro, also known as Gardner Island, which is surrounded by a reef and about 640km southeast of Howland Island.
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I admit it.
I cried like a damn fool.
:)
I like the "Shadows and Light" version with Pat Metheny on guitar.
I'm certain he was drunk when he agreed to fly with her a second time.
...and Lyle Mays on keyboards.
Pat Metheny has long been one of my fav jazz guitarists.
I saw JM’s “Shadows” tour at Cleveland’s outdoor Blossom Center - Great band & music.
Been about 40 years since I first heard the PMG “White Album”.
It changed everything for me musically. The perfect mix of rock and jazz. (I refuse to use the “F” word) I miss Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb in the group, it wasn’t the same after they left.
That part did not make sense to me, I thought radar was not operational then. Looked it up:
“The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca was at Howland to assist Earhart in this pre-radar era by providing radio bearings and a smoke plume, but owing to radio problems, communication was sporadic and broken. According to the Itasca’s radio logs, Earhart indicated she must be near the island but couldn’t see it and was running low on gas. The Electra never made it to the island.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories-spd/
I think it was barely invented- not sure it was in use enough that she was tracked on it. According to this they were using radio bearings and a smoke plume...
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories-spd/
I get the joke, but she did have a male navigator - but it was a different one than she had flown with for years. He wasn’t as experienced. Lots of compounding problems with her last flight - one being the set times to use the radio, and the other to use the telegraph. But the radio(?) on the island wasn’t working, and the ships in the harbor were on different time zones, all still using the time zone of whatever port was home for them! And the time zones weren’t even on the hour. One ship might have 1145 on the clock, and the next one over had 1200. And the island was at 0930.
After the investigation of her disapperance, a time standard was created (Greenwich Mean Time) for international use.
See my post 148. I read a very interesting book on her - included a lot of her early flights. The latter half of the book was about her round the world attempt. It seemed to be very well researched with lots of notes in the end of the book. I think they came up with several possibilities based on how flight worked at the time - but that she went down while doing a north-south search pattern looking for the island.
Thank you, very interesting! Your post #128...you had me looking for #148 and we aren’t there yet...lol
Always admired Carlton’s work with the Crusaders. “Chain Reaction” is one of my old-time faves.
The Crusaders, w/Larry Carlton, played on Michael Franks’ (GREAT) album, “The Art of Tea”.
I loved his work on Steely Dan’s “Royal Scam” aka “the Guitar Album” since LC arranged and played lead on most of the tracks including “Kid Charlemagne” and “Don’t take Me Alive”.
Never heard of “Art of Tea”. I looked up a few tracks.
So far, me like!
Thanks.
I caught that too. Radar was JUST coming on line in 1940.
As an aside, I love the lyrics and can personally relate to “Popsicle Toes”...except she didn’t use a Nikon.
LOTS of great songs on that album.
Michael Franks was a music professor at UCLA when he decided to go for a career change. I saw him at a local jazz club - great show and backing band.
His voice & style is reminiscent of Mose Allison.
And Bob Welch of early Fleetwood Mac.
Mark her down as another dead American, courtesy of that communist cripple FDR.
What strikes me from that photo is how glacial change is in men’s fashions. Fred could reappear today in that outfit and no one would bat an eye. If a woman from that time period in the average dress women wore then came back you’d know something odd was happening, unless you were in Portland, NYC or West Hollywood.
I think they meant RDF radio direction where you triangulate three waves to find a location.
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