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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 31 #1 April 2015 | Down to the Wire | Final plans for Niku VIII | AE |
| Volume 31, # 2 October 2015 | A TIGHAR Selfie | Membership demographics | MM |
| À Coeur Vaillant | Waking up Project Midnight Ghost | PMG | |
| What We Know About 2-2-V-1 | Questions and review on the airplane skin | AE | |
| Niku VIII Final Report | Fieldwork report, Niku VIII | AE | |
| What’s Next for the Earhart Project? | Plans for 2016 and beyond | AE | |
| If Amelia Earhart Was Talking, She Was Not Sinking | Analysis of radio calls and speech patterns in the post-loss radio signals | AE | |
| The Earhart Electra: From Drawing Board to Disappearance | Announcement of new book | AE | |
| Volume 32, #1 March 2016 | Can We Find the Electra? | Search strategy analysis. | AE |
| To Solve a Mystery | Project Midnight Ghost work. | PMG | |
| Volume 32, #2 April 2016 | Clues & Possibilities | Planning the underwater work for Niku IX | AE |
| A Shoe Fetish IV | History and new information on the shoe sole found on Nikumaroro | AE | |
| Volume 32, #3 June 2016 | Niku IX in 2017 | Brief overview. | AE |
| Connecting the Dots | Chapter Two of Finding Amelia – The True Story of the Earhart Electra | AE | |
| Volume 32, #4 October 2016 | How Close Are We? | Brief overview of Earhart evidence. | AE |
| “The Realization of a Dream” | Chapter Two of Finding Amelia – The True Story of the Earhart Electra | AE | |
| First Photos | Research on Electra photos | AE | |
| Flying Off The Map | Why AE did not know she was on Gardner Island | AE | |
| Volume 32, #5 December 2016 | A New Niku IX | Better odds and a lot less money | AE |
| Volume 33, #1 March 2017 | Looking in the Right Place | Analysis of water flow into the passage for Niku IX | AE |
| Lost and Found | A history of the finding and losing and finding and losing of Amelia Earhart | AE | |
| Crashed and Sank | New paper by Dr. Richard Jantz on the bone measurements. | AE | |
| New and Improved TIGHAR Store | Grand opening of the new Store | TB | |
| Volume 33, #2 April 2017 | An Unconventional Expedition | Niku IX final planning | AE |
| Looking in the Wrong Place | Another crashed and sank expedition | AE | |
| Maximum Effort | Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Electra | AE | |
| New Research, New Insights | New Coast Guard veteran, new AE measurements | AE | |
| Volume 33, #3 August 2017 | The Lost Documentary | History Channel documentary that disappeared | AE |
| Unmasking the Castaway | Report on progress with the new work done by Richard Jantz on the bones found on Nikumaroro | AE | |
| The Invisible TIGHAR | TIGHAR’s work with education and contract services | TB | |
| Niku IX Preliminary Report | Summer 2017 field work on Nikumaroro | AE | |
| Confirmation | Accomplishments of forensic dogs at the 7 Site | AE | |
| Volume 33, #4 December 2017 | A New Client: Glenn Miller | The disappearance of Glenn Miller and what we might be able to do about it. | GM |
| What’s Past is Prologue | Analysis of the Bevington photo and new results from photogrammetric work. | AE | |
| The Imbedded Object | If it is what it appears to be, it’s a uniquely identifiable piece of the Electra that broke off when the airplane was washed into the ocean. | AE | |
| Site: 8BY1817 (Aircraft Crash) | Contract work at Tyndall AFB. | CS | |
| Volume 34, #1 February 2018 | Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones, by Richard L. Jantz | Publication of the Jantz paper. | AE |
| Bones and Bias, by Richard E. Gillespie | Interpretation of Jantz report. | ||
| The Archaeological Context of the 1940 Bones Discovery by Thomas F. King | Archeological remarks. | ||
| Forensic Estimation of Scale in Oil Can Photograph by Jeff Glickman | Explanation of technical issues in determination of height. | ||
| Volume 34, #2 August 2018 | The Post-Loss Radio Signals | Explanation of the signals and their importance. | AE |
| Post-Loss Radio Signals Catalog & Analysis 2.0 | Credible signals matched against tidal charts and analyzed. | ||
| Clues in the Content | Analysis of the content of the credible messages. | ||
| John Guthrie Ford Memorial Fund | Establishment of a fund in honor of Guthrie Ford | MM | |
| Dear Major Miller | Announcement of Preliminary Report on Miller. | GM | |
| Volume 34, #3 October 2018 | The Glenn Miller Project | Short overview. | GM |
| TIGHAR Investigative Report: What Really Happened to Glenn Miller | Report on research. | GM | |
| Who’s In Charge Here? | New members of Board of Directors | TC | |
| Volume 35, #1 April, 2019 | New Dots, New Connections | Analysis of Lae, New Guinea film of AE’s takeoff. | AE |
| The Glenn Miller Project, Phase Two: The One That Got Away | Report on meetings and interviews in England. | GM | |
| The Sextant Box Conundrum | Report on possibility that the sextant box came from the Bushnell. | AE | |
| Volume 35, #2 August, 2019 | The Search So Far | History of the underwater searches for the Electra | AE |
| Underwater Aviation Artifact Documentation and Recovery | Discussion of the problems in removing aircraft from salt water | HP | |
| Volume 35, #3 October, 2019 | Of Skulls and Bones | Report on possibility of skull found by National Geographic being Earhart’s. | AE |
| Understanding 99.28% | Discussion of Richard Jantz’s remark on the Nikumaroro bones being Earhart’s. | AE | |
| Sole Survivor? | Discussion of 2-2-V-1 research and analysis. | AE | |
| Legends of the Lost | Guide to evaluating witness testimony. | HP |