Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:08:02 From: Jon Watson Subject: Re: Alan's health I see that your sense of humor wasn't even sprained! Glad to hear that you're on the mend. Best wishes and prayers for a speedy recovery. jon ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:31:26 From: Alan Caldwell Subject: Re: Alan's health Thanks, Jon. Alan ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:31:27 From: Marcus Lind Subject: Re: Alan's health Alan, Best wishes for the speedy recovery from another side of the Big Pond! :) LTM - Marcus Lind ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:50:07 From: Pat Thrasher Subject: Page proofs The page proofs of Finding Amelia have just arrived and I find I am hyperventilating! Somehow it makes it more real. It's still all electronic, I'm looking at PDFs, but it's laid out beautifully with a sort of Art Nouveau type face for the display stuff, and Ric is out of town and won't see it until Saturday! He'll be drivin' fast comin' home. :-) Pat ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:18:51 From: Tom King Subject: Re: Page proofs Great that they're moving right along with it. Incidentally, here's what I posted on my Amazon.com site; I suggest that all Forumites do what can be done to get the word out. LTM (who believes in the power of networking) Anyone who's enjoyed Amelia Earhart's Shoes (AltaMira Press 2004), the book I co-authored with Karen Burns, Randy Jacobson, and Kent Spading on The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery's (TIGHAR's) search for Amelia Earhart, should get on the list for a copy of Finding Amelia, by TIGHAR's Executive Director Ric Gillespie, to be published in late 2006 by the Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org/webstore/shopexd.asp?id=49533). Ric examines the circumstances surrounding the 1937 Earhart/Noonan disappearance in minute and careful detail, with exhaustive background documentation (The book will include a CD containing major reference documents). One important focus of attention is the large corpus of radio messages received by various listening stations in the week or so following the disappearance, which were initially taken seriously but then rejected as hoaxes. Ric has done a minute-by-minute plot of all these messages and analyzed them in a variety of ways, leading to the conclusion that..... well, you'll see. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:34:06 From: Amanda Dunham Subject: Re: page proofs > ...Ric is out of town and won't see it until Saturday! He'll be > drivin' fast comin' home. :-) Why do I keep picturing Ric on his horse dashing through a driving rain? I think I watch waaaay too much tv. LTM, who says it's just not the same without a fedora -- Amanda Dunham #2418CE ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:50:56 From: Ron Bright Subject: Re: page proofs Pat, The USNI has Rics book reviewed. Is it available now or in Sept for purchase? REB ****************************************** I think you can pre-order it from them, or you can pre-order a signed copy from us by joining the Literary Guild. http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/guild.htm ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:35:15 From: Alfred Hendrickson Subject: Re: page proofs Ron, where can I read the review you mention? LTM, Alfred #2583 ************************************* It's not actually a review, it's the sales puff for their catalog: http://www.usni.org/webstore/shopexd.asp?id=49533 Pat ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 18:58:45 From: Ron Bright Subject: Howland Island DF Sometime ago we discussed whether AE knew or was advised that a DF was to be set up on Howland for her use. A little obscure Navy Telegram in March 37 from the U.S. Naval Archives from COMDR SF TO SHOSHONE, CMDR HAWSEC and others indicates that "'PLANE SUGGESTS DIRECTION FINDER BE SET UP ON ISLAND IF PRACTICABLE" PERIOD.[ Osborne, "Amelia, My Courageous Sister, p. 200] I read this as AE, the "PLANE" is requesting this DF.She well have been thinking that a DF on the Island itself would be quite helpfull. Nevertheless, as I recall we could never find any evidence that AE knew positively that a second DF was set up on Howland when she left Lae. Surely there must have been additional telegrams regarding this request. Anyone seen other correspondence relating to this?. By the way, the SF Chronicle reported that AE carried two 50 watt transmitters, and listed her call letters KHAQQ. [ Ibid, p. 200] LTM, Ron B ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 21:01:18 From: Hue Miller Subject: Re: Howland Island DF > From Ron Bright > A little obscure Navy Telegram in March 37 from the U.S. Naval > Archives from COMDR SF TO SHOSHONE, CMDR HAWSEC and others indicates > that "'PLANE SUGGESTS DIRECTION FINDER BE SET UP ON ISLAND IF > PRACTICABLE" PERIOD.[ Osborne, "Amelia, My Courageous Sister, p. 200] > I read this as AE, the "PLANE" is requesting this DF.She well > have been thinking that a DF on the Island itself would be quite > helpfull. Which since she had elected to do without 500 kHz transmit capability, makes me wonder if Bendix had sold her a bill of goods about HF-DF, that, why sure, the Navy and others will be able to give you a bearing on your regular channels. A second DF, one at Howland, might be nice as a fallback or insurance, but I would think the USCG's people on the Itasca might even be better trained at this art. Oops, that's only speculative. With only the evidence so far, it kinda looks like the radio direction finding aspect of this last flight leg was hurry-up, not well thought out or prepared. > Anyone seen other correspondence relating to this?. > By the way, the SF Chronicle reported that AE carried two 50 watt > transmitters, and listed her call letters KHAQQ. [ Ibid, p. 200] Well, they got the callsign right, but the reporter managed to scramble the rest, which was 2 channel 50-watt output. ( And only a fraction of that is radiated; in the horizontal part of the antenna, the radiation is cancelled against the currents in the airframe, so the only radiating part is the vertical rise, which is not a whole lot.) A trailing antenna would have vastly improved her voice communications also, but would have been trickier to tune, because you either have to watch the current meter closely while you reel out the wire, or you have to have an accurately re settable counter on the reel. But that would have been a one time thing, once in the air, and it sure would beat fiddling with direction finder on the shortwave channels, in a race against the clock. Say, what was the deal with deleting the trail antenna? Was this to give her more voice channels, or to eliminate some weight - but it sure didn't weigh that much.... -Hue Miller ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:15:46 From: Pat Thrasher Subject: Earhart's shoes, again A Forum reader suggests looking at these pictures for possible sizing of shoes: www.ameliaearhart.com Gallery_7, Gallery_20 and Gallery_26 ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 11:24:56 From: Tom King Subject: Re: Earhart's shoes, again Maybe I'm missing something, but what I see on this site are lots of head shots and above-the-waist shots, and no "galleries" whatever. ********************************************* If you click on the photos they will expand into a full frame. Just count to 7, 20, and 26 and click on those. Pat ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:58:57 From: Tom Strang Subject: Re: Howland Island DF For Hue MIller Keeping in mind, what if'ing NR16020 would had 500 kHz trailing wire antenna on-board is an exercise in grand speculation and a fun sport here on the forum. I ask you the following four questions. On the first World Flight attempt, who appeared to be setting NR16020's radio requirements for Earhart? Was the 500 kHz transmitter capable of both voice and code transmission? Did in fact Earhart herself "elect" to do without the 500 kHz capability? What if the deletion of the trailing wire antenna had nothing to do with A/C weight/balance or even radio capabilities? Respectfully, Tom Strang # 2559 ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:04:33 From: Tom King Subject: Amelia Schpiel I'll be giving one of my ever-popular talks on TIGHAR's pursuit of the Nikumaroro Hypothesis, and signing copies of AE's Shoes, at 7 pm on July 24th at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, VA (http://www.vasc.org/). People in Portland, OR are still trying to set one up there during my visit on July 18-19, but right now it doesn't look terribly likely. LTM