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My understanding is that the mystery of Amelia is due to Amelia’s refusal to carry an MF radio with trailing wire antenna.
Not actually anything new. I’d read about every bit of “news” in excerpt before. Does the full article release anything more?
WTF?
Her last message: I need to stop to use the restroom.
😃😄😂😂🤣🤣🤣
“Hillary Diane Jezebel Rodham Clinton’
That’s my latest version of her name 🤣🤣
Chuuk would have pretty far away I think, but maybe Im wrong.
A dozen paragraphs down to get to any substance. The writer must get paid by the word.
“Mountain goat”
Oopsie...
[We have occasional Big Horns in the yard tearing things up, but no Mtn. goats.]
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Five or six years ago we had [on a very clear day] AF1 clear the compound by ~ 1,000 ft.
[Fun....]
Amelia Earhart last message: “There is a bright light that has enveloped the plane. It is pulling the plane up towards the unidentified flying object”
“My God, it’s full of stars!”
The Imperial Japanese Military was active in the area............
Flying at 1000 feet, low on fuel, no bearing, no reply.............
They went into the ocean......................
We’re out of gas and flying at 1000 feet...................
Per Grok.....
Meaning of “On the Line 157 337”Navigation Context: This phrase refers to a line of position (LOP) in celestial navigation, a technique used by Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, to pinpoint their location without modern GPS. It indicates they were flying along a specific sun line calculated at sunrise that morning.
The Numbers: 157° and 337° are compass bearings (measured clockwise from true north).
These are reciprocal headings: 157° is southeast, and 337° is its opposite, northwest (adding 180° gives the reverse direction).
Together, they describe a straight north-south navigational line passing through Howland Island (their intended refueling stop in the central Pacific, near the equator).
Why This Line? Noonan likely used a sextant reading of the sun’s position at dawn to establish this LOP. It served as a fallback when they couldn’t visually spot Howland or get a radio fix from the nearby USS Itasca. By flying along this line, they hoped to intersect Howland while conserving fuel.
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I still cdon’t know where it was as to be found on Google Earth
“Rosebud.”
Some people think that they were waaaay off course, near Saipan...................
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