Posted on 06/07/2010 5:51:01 AM PDT by Daffynition
Tantalizing new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island believed to be the final resting place of the legendary aviatrix.
Three pieces of a pocket knife and fragments of what might be a broken cosmetic glass jar are adding new evidence that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed and eventually died as castaways on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. The island was some 300 miles southeast of their target destination, Howland Island.
"These objects have the potential to yield DNA, specifically what is known as 'touch DNA,'" Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), told Discovery News in an email interview from Nikumaroro.
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re: The MSM adoration of her was boosted by her “first woman across the Atlantic”
If we aren’t careful the MSM is going to talk us into electing a total Zero has President simply because he’s black.
Let’s get this right. The bones they found are now ‘lost.’ The glass jar embossing cannot be read because it is ‘dirty.’
This is the level of journalism to which msnbc rises?
Virtually no one knows that this “aviator” was a manufactured publicity stunt. Once Lindberg had done his remarkable flying (and he was a very capable pilot), there was a fellow (I’ve forgotten his name) who realized that in the social environment of 1920s feminism there was money to be made by promoting a woman as essentially a female “Lindberg”. Earhardt fit the bill because she was young, pretty, and could give a good interview. As for her flying skils, she was the Kara Hultgren of her day - not up to the tasks put in front of her, and ultimately she killed herself and someone else.
Hey, be nice, she’s family.
I have seen interviews of Amelia and I thought she looked and sounded like a gullible introvert who, though loving the attention, was being manipulated.
She didn’t seem to have any conversational skills and had a very flat delivery.
The guy who went along on the last flight, was a drinker.
So what do politics have to do with flying?
Lindberg went on to work with Lockheed as a technical advisor. He shot down at least one Jap aircraft while flying a P-38 when teaching Air Force pilots in the South Pacific theater the techniques conserving gas in extreamly long flights.
Do they really think she used cosmetics?
Is it just me or does Amelia come off as an arrogant and smug little twit to other people as well?
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We never met.
It’s a compelling story for those so inclined. You are not, apparently, so inclined.
That hardly makes those of us who are interested guilty of a lack of discernment by any stretch. But I’m sure you feel better having gotten that off of your chest.
“and a worse navigator”
Her navigator was as good as they come. Pioneered the routes for the Pan Am clippers. Even that said, extreme range overwater flights were a very dangerous undertaking back then. Many things could go wrong, and apparently one did for those two.
In many flights of that nature, in that era, a picket line of destroyers was deployed along the route to assist navigation and provide rescue. That’s how much success was anticipated.
Whatever we think of her skills, that was a brave thing to try. An inch or two on the map or the pacific can take on terrifying proportions in reality.
Lindbergh was a genius in the cockpit. I read a story about his exploits in the Pacific. As a tech rep, he taught our guys how to extend the range of Corsairs and P-38s farther than anyone ever dreamed was possible. He flew numerous unofficial combat missions. He was basically exiled to the pacific because of his political mistakes.
Howard Hughes was another amazing flyer. His later mental degeneration is sad,, but he was another pioneer.
So many of those early fliers were basically loners who had extremely poor social skills. I guess it kind of fits, if you think about it for a minute.
“she was the Kara Hultgren of her day - not up to the tasks put in front of her”
good analogy, pretty close.
Small town clebs are fun. We had as a close family friend, the first woman to get her pilot’s license in our state. She was a free-spirited daredevil for her time. I still have an image of her all dressed up in gold lamé shoes picking the first dandelions of spring, so she could make her in/famous dandelion wine. During those early piloting years, she developed a close friendship with Arthur Godfrey, who was in his own right quite a pilot.
Oh.... excuse me.... I thought I was at Freerepublic, where I could have a personal view!
Watching “The Right Stuff”, I had no idea that the owner of the bar the test pilots frequented was owned by such a colorful character.
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