Posted on 10/30/2014 8:14:51 AM PDT by bkopto
Could one of aviation's most enduring mysteries be solved? An aircraft recovery group says it may already have a part of Amelia Earhart's plane, and it thinks it knows where to find the rest of it.
The International Historic Aircraft Recovery Group says new testing of a piece of metal found in the vast waters of the Pacific Ocean in 1991 gives the group "increasing confidence" that it's a part of the Lockheed Electra.
In a press release the group argues that the aluminum debris is likely a patch that Earhart had put on her plane in place of a window. The group says the patch had a distinctive shape, size and "pattern of rivets."
"The patch was as unique to her particular aircraft as a fingerprint is to an individual," the group wrote. Now the groups says research on the aluminum "matches that fingerprint in many respects."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
GGG ping
So....I’m guessing the rivets were ferrous and eroded by the salt water?
Couldn`t have been that many of that
model of plane in the area.
Unless someone has flown across the Pacific
they have no idea how big it is.Brave lady,dumb
idea that flight was.
Got an aunt that still has some AE luggage.
Bit old looking,but still work just fine.
Pretty good evidence cuz you have to find a reason for another “size and type” to be in the area.
Interesting that rivets factor with Earhart crash...
Apparently rivets a big factor in the Titanic sinking as well. Iron in place of stronger steel rivets, where dictated by limited access for pneumatic hammers and then need to hand form/drive the rivet. Iron rivets with slag and/or slag in a weakening alignment versus an alignment that would have made the rivet stronger.
Unlikely.
This is total BS. The guy is a professional scammer.
More fun if it remains a mystery. What if Elvis is still alive? Was there a 2nd gunman in Dallas? Was there really a one armed man? Oh yea that was solved.
“Got an aunt that still has some AE luggage.”
Had some, too.
But they got lost one time on a flight from Hawaii.
/banda - bing/
http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/10/a-piece-of-the-earhart-plane-remains-are-a-questionable-claim/
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295
http://skeptoid.com/blog/2012/03/20/more-amelia-earhart-nonsense/
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/06/tighar-accused-of-racketeering-in-earhart-plane-recovery-project/
AE is working in a Seven-Eleven in Detroit with Elvis. He works the swing-shift, AE works the graveyard-shift. That is why they are never seen.
The threads on TIGHAR over on WarbirdInformationExchange (WIX) are always fun to read.
The rivets are a factor in identifying the aircraft remains not in the crash.
The crash was caused by lack of fuel.
If Elvis were alive, he’d have made an appearance when his wacky daughter “married” equally wacky Michael Jackson.
“If Elvis were alive, he’d have made an appearance when his wacky daughter “married” equally wacky Michael Jackson.”
ROFL
If he didn't die of a heart attack from the shock first.
rivets, yes. also the type of steel plates used on the hull. apparently on the brittle side.
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