Posted on 01/27/2024 1:08:49 PM PST by Libloather
A South Carolina man believes he may have discovered the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo turned his fascination with the legendary pilot into an adventure when he embarked on an ambitious search for Earhart's lost plane.
Romeo, who sold his commercial property investments to fund his search, managed to take a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object on the ocean floor in December.
Earhart and her Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra vanished at the height of her fame, a mystery that has spawned decades of searches and conspiracy theories.
Earhart's record-breaking run as a pioneering pilot at the very beginning of the aviation age made her an international celebrity.
She became the first woman to fly solo, nonstop across the continental US and the Atlantic, and the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland over the Pacific.
'This is maybe the most exciting thing I'll ever do in my life,' Romeo told the Wall Street Journal.
'I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.'
'For her to go missing was just unthinkable,' Romeo said.
Adding: 'Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.'
Romeo spent $11 million to fund the trip and buy the high-tech gear needed for the search including an underwater 'Hugin' drone manufactured by the Norwegian company Kongsberg.
The expedition launched in in early September from Tarawa, Kiribati, a port near Howland Island, with a 16-person crew aboard a research vessel.
In outings that lasted 36 hours each, the unmanned submersible scanned 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.
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I imagine Taylor Swift disappearing daily.
Wing shape looks too modern.
“Adding: ‘Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.’ “
I would have to know who she is to care.
I would really love to have this one solved. Hope he does it.
Yeah, and what happened to those two huge engine nacelles?
Those would be rather evident I should think.
Wow, Robert Ballard, Woods Hole and the CIA all failed.
Way too early to make any determinations other than scanning found a fuzzy blob.
Gee whiz!
If true, now I can sleep better...
I was 4 years old when she disappeared and there have been many sleepless nights ever since...
Don’t know much about aircraft, but that Electra was one beauty of a machine to the eyes of this novice.
You think maybe there’s a chance for rescue? She’s kinda old.
When I clicked on the link a fake McAfee screen popped up with loud beep noise. I don’t have McAfee so it was some sort of annoying malware. Backed out and did not have any viruses or issues.
Once in a while I will run into this on the web. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can weigh in.
I hope she’s ok
Hope she’s okay
Ok now Loch Ness!
They definitely need close up shots of it before anyone can say for sure what it is, let alone Amelia’s plane. But that’s an interesting find.
Looks like a gen2 jet like an F-86 or MiG 15.
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