Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:36:20
From:         Jim Tierney
Subject:      Re: It's done

Ric/Pat--Congratulations-----O Happy Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Manuscript is on its way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well Done..
Jim Tierney
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Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:36:39
From:         Chuck Buzbee
Subject:      Re: It's done

OUTSTANDING  -   CONGRATULATIONS     You deserve it.

Chuck Buzbee
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Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2006 08:38:57
From:         Dan Postellon
Subject:      Re: It's done

Way to go! Looks like you can make the Christmas book market.
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Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2006 16:06:33
From:         Leonard Lazoff
Subject:      Re: It's done

Congratulations!!! I can hardly wait for the printing, publishing and distribution in order to see the finished product. It's like waiting for the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  LEN
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Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:34:59
From:         Alfred Hendrickson
Subject:      Finito

Good going, Ric & Pat. That is a nice piece of work, all finished.

This brings up a few questions:

1) Will we see more advance chapters in Tracks between now and book publication date?

2) Will we hear more from Ric on the Forum now?

LTM (last of the manuscripting),

Alfred #2583

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1)  Yes.
2)  Yes.

P
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Date:         Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:27:43 -0400
From:         Alan Caldwell
Subject:      Re: Finito

Ric wrote a book? When did this happen? How long have I been in the hospital? <G>

OK, seriously, I don't think any of us can comprehend the great relief Ric and Pat are feeling with this mountain off your backs.

For Ric:

This is 2006. April as a matter of fact. Nothing of great consequence has gone on in the news over the last couple of years. Probably the most important event was Mickleson taking first place today and nearly a million bucks by 28 under.

Iraq is still going on. Actually so are about fifty other fights around the globe but the media mostly ignores them.

The Republicans are still in office but the Democrats, for the first time, now have a "plan." OK so it's just a list of campaign sound bites but if they call it a plan enough times someone other than the media and Fox News might believe them. <G>

Beautiful school teachers are still seducing ("abusing") high school boys. I didn't have a beautiful teacher in any grade so I missed out.

With too much time on my hands I have solved an eleven year old airplane crash. Actually with help from Ric on prop bends. NTSB had it wrong. The guy was not buzzing a lake but he did put his plane into a high speed stall trying to bend it back to a runway center line. How many times have pilots done that? So it was still pilot error. They just got the error wrong.

Congratulations, Ric and Pat for a great job well done. Welcome back.

Alan
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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:53:53 -0400
From:         Russ Matthews
Subject:      To Save a Devastator

For anyone here who's interested in aviation history beyond Amelia, I'd like to point out that the TIGHAR home page (www.tighar.org) now features a greatly expanded section another of the organization's most exciting efforts -- the Devastator Project.  New updates, photos and dramatic video detail the latest progress toward the potential archaeological recovery, conservation, and preservation of a Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator" torpedo bomber -- one of the most significant aircraft from the desperate early days of WWII and the development of naval aviation.  Currently, there are no examples of this type preserved anywhere in the world.

I invite you to check it out for yourselves.  If you like what you see, then please help us to spread the word... or even join the team and support the field work planned for this Sept/Oct in the Pacific!

LTM,
Russ
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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:55:07 -0400
From:         Herman De Wulf
Subject:      Anyone home?

Hi Ric, Pat

I wonder what happened to the forum. Since I renewed my subscription the forum seems dead. Is anyone still home there ? Why are there no postings any more ?

LTM
Herman
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I think everyone must have spring fever, Herman. But Ric is planning an assault, so brace yourselves....

Pat

PS -- The editor assigned to Finding Amelia really likes it so far.
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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:39:33 -0400
From:         Ric Gillespie
Subject:      Nauticos search?

We've been hearing rumblings and rumors that Nauticos may have conducted another deep-sea search for the Earhart plane earlier this year.  There's nothing about Earhart on the Nauticos website more recent than 2002.

Anybody have any information on this?

LTM,
Ric
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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:04:41 -0400
From:         Ron Bright
Subject:      Re: Anyone home?

In my opinion, we have analysed and rehashed every relevant clue regarding the mystery from fuel consumption, navigation, signals received, various artifacts, and so on. Nothing really new has been uncovered to date, nor any new document, nor any new artifact.

I have suggested we examine the Paul Mantz papers  at Oskosh for clues regarding fuel consumption tests and possible alternative plans, but noone has managed to get up there to the Experimental Air Museum at Oskosh, WI.

Thus we are awaiting what Tighar may have found, or at least a new wrinkle, or a more scientific analysis of known data on the post lost radio transmissions suggesting AE survived for a time on Niku.

Tighar believes the "answer" was right before our eyes! But so far has remained in the background preparing the blockbuster book scheduled for release I believe in Sept 2006.

LTM,
Ron Bright

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September 6, to be precise.

P
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Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:12:39 -0400
From:         Mike Everette
Subject:      Re: Nauticos search?

I saw a recent reference that indicated the Collins Radio Club of Cedar Rapids,  IA was involved with this effort.  I seem to remember seeing this in February, or early to mid March.  The CRC is a ham radio group centered around the Rockwell-Collins plant in Cedar Rapids but is not, I believe, an official organization of the Company.  The club has a web site but I have not looked at it.  They also have an ongoing display in a local museum or library in Cedar Rapids.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:47:04 -0400
From:         Dale Intolubbe
Subject:      Re: Nauticos search?

Found on the very long address; Dated 9 March 2006

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Uyg169PuwQEJ:news.mikeoconnor.net/
aggregator/categories/10%3Ffrom%3D40%26PHPSESSID%
3D66250526982c5707bdc5ca2949ca099a+Collins+Radio+Club
+earhart&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6

Members of the Collins Amateur Radio Club are aboard the research vessel Davidson and active as W0CXX/mm in the Pacific Ocean near Western Kiribati, The Daily DX reports. Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, and Tom Vinson, NY0V, are assisting in an expedition that's trying to find Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra E10 aircraft. During a similar trip in 2002, the pair was active for one day as T30CXX, but that sort of operation is not planned for this year's visit. In 1932, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1937, her plane went down somewhere in the Pacific while Earhart, accompanied by navigator Frederick Noonan, was trying to circumnavigate the globe. Despite a massive search and rescue effort, no wreckage was ever found. Earhart's disappearance has become one of the great unsolved mysteries in aviation history and popular culture. The R/V Davidson is using a sonar device in an effort to locate Earhart's plane on the floor of the Pacific.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:47:28 -0400
From:         
Subject:      Re: Nauticos search?

This might be the ship;

http://www.history.noaa.gov/ships/davidson.html
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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:33:22 -0400
From:         Dennis McGee
Subject:      No traffic

In the intell "bidness" they use to warn us that when a target's communications network went dead (i.e. no traffic) then in all probability something BIG was in the works.  I'd like to thank to Pat and Ric for confirming this age-old intell tool. J

LTM, who is seldom silent
Dennis O. McGee #0149EC
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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:33:41 -0400
From:         Dennis McGee
Subject:      Good intell!

Kudos to Dale Intolubbe for digging up that scrap of info regarding the work on the Davidson.  Nice work!!

LTM, who appreciates ingenuity
Dennis O. McGee, #1049EC
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Date:         Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:58:00 -0400
From:         Ric Gillespie
Subject:      Collins Radio Club

I wonder if someone at the Collins Radio Club might be able to tell us how things went. Anyone have a contact there?