Please click on the links below for access to each issue. The files are PDFs which can be read on line or downloaded. They can be read with Adobe Acrobat.
TIGHAR Tracks
TIGHAR Tracks is a periodic publication of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. All issues are on line as PDFs, with some delay; some are also available as text files.
Finding Amelia: The True Story Of the Earhart Disappearance
Finding Amelia, Ric Gillespie’s book on the 1937 search for Earhart, is excerpted and discussed in this section. The data DVD content is included in its entirety as well.
The Book
he unlikely process by which Finding Amelia came to be written began in 1999. TIGHAR’s investigation of the Earhart disappearance
Foreword
by Mark R. Peattie, Ph.D. Asia-Pacific Research CenterStanford University t is difficult to write about a legend. Write too richly
Acknowledgments
The research that made this book possible has been an eighteen-year voyage of discovery. The International Group for Historic Aircraft
Introduction
n July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart vanished somewhere in the Central Pacific during an attempted flight around the world. Finding
About the Author
he son of a decorated World War Two pilot, Richard E. Gillespie grew up around airplanes and learned to fly
About the DVD
ach hardback copy of Finding Amelia comes with a complete resource library on DVD, offering one-click links from source notes
Buy
is available in both hardback and soft cover. The hardback, with free data DVD, is available ONLY from TIGHAR. The
Volume 1 through Volume 5
1985 through 1989
| AA | Aviation Archeology |
| AC | Aviation Archeology Course |
| AE | Earhart Project |
| B17 | B-17 in New Guinea |
| BBH | Bombay Hook P-47 |
| BL | Bellanca survey |
| CBT | CyberTIGHAR |
| FR | Fund Raising |
| FS | For Sale |
| GH | General History |
| HM | Humor |
| HP | Historic Preservation |
| LT | Letters |
| MH | Maid of Harlech |
| MM | Membership issues |
| OS | Operation Sepulchre |
| PMG | Project Midnight Ghost |
| PR | Public Relations |
| RM | Rumor Mill |
| RV | Review of book or film |
| TB | TIGHAR Business |
| TBD | TBD Devastator, Jaluit Atoll |
| Issue | Title | Subject | Code | ||
| Volume 21 #1 May 2005 | The Suitcase in My Closet | Announcement of book project | AE | ||
| Introduction | Intro to book, draft | AE | |||
| Losing Amelia: Chapter 1, Kamakaiwi Field | First chapter, draft | AE | |||
| 2005 TIGHAR Aviation Archeology Field School | College Park announcement | AC | |||
| Volume 21, #2 August 2005 | We Have a Publisher | Naval Institute Press announcement | AE | ||
| Hawaiian Debacle | Chapter 2 draft | AE | |||
| Reversals | Chapter 3 draft | AE | |||
| Not For Publication | Chapter 4 draft | AE | |||
| Literary Guild | Funding the book | AE | |||
| Volume 21, #3 October 2005 | Progress Report | Report on Book | AE | ||
| Stand to Sea | Chapter 5 draft | AE | |||
| The Long Road to Lae | Chapter 6 draft | AE | |||
| “Ship is on reef south of the equator” | Randolph/Rock Springs radio call | AE | |||
| Volume 22, #1 February 2006 | To Save a Devastator | TBD report | TBD | ||
| Unsung Hero | Historical importance of TBD | TBD | |||
| An Urgent Recommendation | TBD performance analysis from the time | TBD | |||
| Progress Report | Progress on book | AE | |||
| Denmark’s a Prison | Chapter 7 draft | AE | |||
| Lost | Chapter 8 draft | AE | |||
| Volume 23, #1 February 2007 | Niku V – The 70th Anniversary Expedition | Overview of Niku V upcoming | AE | ||
| New Discovery | The Cary diaries | AE | |||
| Finding Amelia Sales | Release of book | AE | |||
| To Save a Devastator | Evaluation expedition | TBD | |||
| Volume 23, #2 July 2007 | A Short History of a Long Project | Overview of Earhart Project | AE | ||
| Volume 23, #3 August 2007 | Niku V Preliminary Report | First questions and answers from field work | AE | ||
| Artifacts Found | Report on village and seven site | AE | |||
| Imagery Acquired | Kite aerial photography | AE | |||
| Volume 23, #4 November 2007 | Saving a Devastator, Making History | Progress on TBD | TBD | ||
| Volume 24, #1 March 2008 | So Many Projects, So Much to Report | Analytical work on Earhart Project | AE | ||
| Back to the Marshalls | Report on TBD | TBD | |||
| Maid of Harlech | Report on P-38 project | P38 | |||
| Volume 24, #2 May 2008 | Jigsaw Puzzle | Lengthy report on Earhart Project artifacts | AE | ||
| Volume 24, #3 July 2008 | Another Piece of the Puzzle | Full report on zipper. | AE | ||
| Volume 24, #4 October 2008 | Smoking Guns | Continued work on Earhart. | AE | ||
| Archeological Update | Further on artifacts and DNA | AE | |||
| The 31o5 Donut | Discussion on radio technical matters. | AE | |||
| Numbers Game | Sextant numbers. | AE | |||
| Announcing the TIGHAR Institute for Aviation History | Website update and expansion. | CBT | |||
| Review and Update | On P-38 and Devastator | P38 TBD | |||
| Volume 25 July 2009
| Niku Again in 2010 | Niku VI announcement | AE | ||
| Road to Niku VI | A short history of the project | AE | |||
| The Post-Loss Radio Signals | Their importance in the project | AE | |||
| Logistics Logistics Logistics | Work in the Marshall Islands | TBD | |||
| TIGHAR 2.0 | Upgrades to website | CBT | |||