Posted on 09/10/2016 4:34:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Their most accurate nav aid would have been sunrise. With a good chronometer (not unusual at the time, esp for someone trained in maritime celestial navigation) position at sunrise would give them the longitude line of their position.
From there, using DR&P, they would have the longitude of their destination. Just have to determine the latitude (which they failed to do).
In previous “spats” over position with her navigator, AH would always make a right turn when she felt they were lost. If she did this on the last leg, it would point her toward Nikumaroro Island.
TIGHAR has conducted 10 search missions with very little to show for it. Last “search” seemed more like a cruise ship journey. However, perhaps the next one (July ‘17) with submersibles will yield something. Or maybe rule out Gardner Is. as crash site? No plane no crash?
LOL
Radar was under development, especially in the UK in 37 and had been used very experimentally in directing naval gunfire. But the idea that a USCGC in the South Pacific would have a working radar set is absolutely a fantasy.
With a keen knowledge wave shapes and the sky, early peoples crossed the Pacific to South America.
Columbus had a compass and quadrant, he found the Bahamas, with topless native girls!
You just know he will find his way back; repeatedly.
Lindbergh had an induction compass, watch, clock and maps.
Head east to coastline, check maps head to Paris.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan had all usual aids and early radio direction finding equipment.
But their destination was fly speck, proving yet again that”Fate is the hunter” (That Gann guy made me write that!)
What is DR&P?
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DR&P = dead reckoning and pilotage.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan had all usual aids and early radio direction finding equipment.
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Their radio equipment wasn’t compatible with the radio on the ship. Noonan had an inaccurate map, and their clock was set to a different time than the clock on the ship. Earhart was a lucky daredevil and her luck finally ran out.
We didn’t have RADAR until the British gave it to us due to the fall of France to the Germans.
LOL, that movie is one of my guilty pleasures!
Now that is a movie that could use a reboot
A bit bogus. eh??
Damn sure not long range radar in the middle of the Pacific.
In 1931 Pangborn and Herndon flew from Japan to Wenatchee, WA. nonstop. They were on a round the world record attempt but were arrested for spying when they arrived in Tokyo for taking movies of the area before the landing. They were held for a month before the embassy got them released. They decided to do the Pacific non-stop as a Jap newspaper was offering $ 25,000 to the first ones to do it. The Japanese told them they would be shot down if they came back to Japan. Pangborn modified the Belanca to drop the landing gear after take-off to cut wind resistance. Took 41 hours and they landed at Wenatchee because Seattle was fogged in. He bellied the plane in on a grassy field and the bent prop is in a museum in Wenatchee. The Belanca was sold to a guy who tried to fly from New York to Rome with a woman dressed as a nurse to honor the nurses of The Great War. She supposed to parachute into Rome but the plane crashed somewhere off of Spain.
Actually, the author misspoke. The last known position of Amelia’s aircraft was spotted by geosynchronous satellite.
Yes. Brian Williams was the operator.
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