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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 36 #1 February 2020 | The Last Days of Amelia Earhart | Survival on Nikumaroro | AE |
| Cache & Carry | Did AE find the Norwich City supply cache? | AE | |
| Legends of the Lost | Evaluating eyewitness testimony | HP/AE | |
| Volume 36 #2 April 2020 | The Wrong Navigator | Frederick Noonan’s navigation techniques | AE |
| 2-2-V-1 Update | Latest research on the aircraft skin | AE | |
| Orphans of the Storm | Artifact 2-2-V-1a, Wire | AE | |
| Volume 36 #3 July 2020 | Doppelgänger | The Daily Express and NR 16020 | AE |
| Research Update: Artifact 2-2-V-1a | Provenance, location, and condition | AE | |
| The Dating Game | Dating Electra photos | AE | |
| Volume 36 Special Edition September 2020 | A special edition with two chapters from the upcoming book, The Earhart Electra, The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Missing Airplane, by Ric Gillespie. | ||
| Chapter 3: The Realization of a Dream | Planning and preparation, and delivery of NR16020 | AE | |
| Chapter 4: Teething Troubles | AE | ||
| Volume 36 #5 October 2020 | Book Progress | A short remark on the process. | AE |
| Introduction: Changing Mystery to History | AE | ||
| Chapter 5: Delay, Desperation, and Deliverance | October to December, 1936 | AE | |
| Volume 37 #1 February 2021 | The Continuing Saga | Update on 2-2-V-1. | AE |
| A Tale of a Tail | A piece of AE’s Vega’s tail. | AE | |
| Chapter 6: House of Cards | January and February, 1937. | AE | |
| Chapter 7: The Weakest Link | March 1937 | AE | |
| Volume 37 #2 June 2021 | Chapter 8: Formula for Failure | April/May, 1937 | AE |
| Volume 37 #3 September 2021 | What Happened to the Plane? | Searching for the Electra at Nikumaroro | AE |
| Plausible and Testable | The reasonable hypothesis. | AE | |
| What Happened to Fred? | A clue hiding in plain sight. | AE | |
| New Miami Photos | A new collection from 1937. | AE | |
| Volume 38 #1 February 2022 | Genesis | TIGHAR’s beginnings | PMG |
| The Legend of the Plane in the Pond | Moving the search to Newfoundland. | PMG | |
| The Newfoundland Expeditions | What we’ve done there and why. | PMG | |
| A Place to Land | Analysis of the route and the Gull Pond | PMG | |
| A Bigger Book | Update on progress of the next book. | AE | |
| Volume 38 #2 June 2022 | Reconstructing the Crash | Analysis of the crash of l’Oiseau Blanc. | PMG |
| Alternatives | Lindbergh and Earhart | AE | |
| Correcting the Record: The Luke Field Crash | The Groundloop in Hawai’i | AE | |
| Volume 38 #3 September 2022 | The Summer of ’22 | New Publicity, New Evidence, New Imagery, New Frustrations | PMG |
| What Went Wrong? | Gull Pond Crash Analysis | PMG | |
| 2-2-V-1 Update | Neutrons, Numbers, and Labels | AE | |
| Volume 39 #1 September 2023 | Project Midnight Ghost: Expedition XXXIII | Field Work at the Gull Pond | PMG |
| The Process | How TIGHAR pursues projects | PMG | |
| One More Good Flight | Book Progress | AE | |