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 on: February 01, 2024, 03:38:43 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Christian Stock
Romeo dismisses this criticism. Both the wings and the tail look swept back due to distortion caused by the AUV moving through the water


I'd be interested to see other examples of this phenomenon.

 22 
 on: February 01, 2024, 02:51:40 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Dale O. Beethe
I keep seeing references to the "double tail" on this image.  Am I missing something?  I don't see it.

 23 
 on: February 01, 2024, 01:40:02 PM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Ric Gillespie
The Naval Institute Press has released a preview of my new book One More Good Flight - The Amelia Earhart Mystery.
You can read it at https://issuu.com/usnibooks/docs/gillespie_one_more_good_flight_book_prvw

The preview includes:
• The Table of Contents
• The Preface
•  Chapter One - Plane Crazy
•  Chapter Two - Fame And More Fame
•  The Index (with dummy text). The Index has not yet been completed.
•  About The Author

It’s actually more than we expected the publisher to reveal prior to the full book’s official release September 15, 2024. Let me know what you think.

 24 
 on: February 01, 2024, 01:32:45 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Ric Gillespie
We've been sending out news bulletin emails about this.  Click HERE for the most recent one.  It's shareable on social media.

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 25 
 on: February 01, 2024, 01:21:07 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Christian Stock
Even if it looks like swept wings, the image is basically like a shadow. You don't know how the object is oriented. Yes, it looks like an FJ-4, but it could also be a WWII era carrier aircraft with wings partially folded. Some of them stowed in a "swept" configuration.

The ferry route to Australia took aircraft to Christmas Island, then Canton, etc. It could easily be a C-47. When you have a blurry mish-mash of an image, the nose section, engines and slightly swept wings of the C-47 might look even more swept.

 26 
 on: January 31, 2024, 02:32:08 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Greg Daspit
According to the interviewer at the 6:45 point in the linked Youtube video below, Bob Ballard believed the plane to be "in the sea off Howland" as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyfTi2-VQDY
I wonder if after his previous searches and expeditions in that area he picked up the same thing, or something similar they want to revisit. The way he says "stay tuned" seems like he has some information he is not willing to share.

 27 
 on: January 31, 2024, 07:55:18 AM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Randy Jacobson
If the plane went down west of Howland, the prevailing currents and wind would have the plane drift west, not east.  The post-loss aerial search by the Navy correctly assumed this.  Based upon the ship logs' re-navigation, I was able to determine that the narrow Equatorial CounterCurrent, which runs west to east, was narrow and above 2* N.  This current would be in opposition to the winds, largely putting her plane in somewhat of a static east-west position.

 28 
 on: January 30, 2024, 03:08:20 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Christian Stock
I'm guessing it'll be an FJ-4 Fury.  Any other guesses?

C-47

 29 
 on: January 30, 2024, 01:20:29 PM 
Started by Jeff Lange - Last post by Jerry Stalheim
What if it is her plane?  100 miles outside of Howland Island. 
Could they have landed safely on the water (like guy in NY), floated around for a bit (sending messages)until plane started to fill with water and sink (one of messages said "taking on water knee deep"), and then one of them drifted or floated to Gardner island (300 miles away) and been cast away still?  Sounds far fetched I know.
Or they both sank with plane and debris floated to Gardner island causing the items to be found there?
Shoes, glass, zipper piece, possibly floating in a bag?
Although I know messages were heard by people days after plane disappeared..... just a theory no real basis, asking questions still though almost 90 years later.

 30 
 on: January 30, 2024, 01:37:54 AM 
Started by Ric Gillespie - Last post by Diego Vásquez
I haven’t been keeping up on things here.  What’s the latest status of 2-2-V-1?  Did we ever get the Glickman report on it? 

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