Last seen on radar in 1937?
That’s about as long as the last time Hillary answered non-preapproved questions.
Seemed early to me, too, but apparently there had been radar for a couple of years at that time.
My thoughts exactly as radar at the time was crude, and quite rare as it was experimental, and coming online at the time. It would seem to me quite the coincidence that radar would be effectual in just those locations Amelia Earhardt happened to be flying.
Try "RDF" Radio Direction Finder back then! Not all that precise (particularly at great distances) unless you had very sophisticated equipment back then! Even the, the "Margin of Error" for triangulation could be hundreds of miles!
Kinda jumps out at you, doesn’t it?
Fishy ...
The history of the wee hours of Pearl Harbor and Dec. 7th talks about the new gadget the military had ... a radar unit.
So 1941 would seem to be the earliest that radar existed.
I didn't think they had radar in 1937. I thought it was invented during the war, and was a huge aid to the British during the Battle of Britain, and then rapidly advanced to aid AA firing by the allies. In Churchill's massive and detailed seven volume memoirs about WWII, there is a portion titled "War of the Wizards" which deals with the rapid advance in technology during the war and its effects.
I caught that, too.
I wondered about that too. Practical useful radar wasn't available until '41 or '42 at the earliest. I need to refresh my memory.
Who the heck would have radar in the middle of the Pacific at that time?
Somebody needs to do some fact checking.
A bit bogus. eh??
Actually, the author misspoke. The last known position of Amelia’s aircraft was spotted by geosynchronous satellite.
Yes. Brian Williams was the operator.
I don’t think was deployed beyond initial testing sites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar
Caught my attention also. Maybe RDF.
“Last seen on radar in 1937?”
Of course. Brian Williams was the operator.
That part did not make sense to me, I thought radar was not operational then. Looked it up:
“The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca was at Howland to assist Earhart in this pre-radar era by providing radio bearings and a smoke plume, but owing to radio problems, communication was sporadic and broken. According to the Itasca’s radio logs, Earhart indicated she must be near the island but couldn’t see it and was running low on gas. The Electra never made it to the island.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories-spd/
I caught that too. Radar was JUST coming on line in 1940.