Ric,
What matrix do you use to rationalize the four aspects of the Earhart search in order to point the way to a solution to the ultimate riddle of what happened to Amelia Earhart on that July day in 1937?
• Historic documentation – Lae take off films, radio logs, DR bearings, the Gardner Bones file, etc.
• Antidotal recollections – the beginning of the Earhart hypothesis, the original Coast Guard memories, Emiley’s recollection, Betty’s note book, etc.
• Physical evidence – Plexiglas, shoe parts, aircraft aluminum, makeup mirror, etc.
• Scientific process – bones analysis, lanolin bottle, cosmetic determination, and possible DNA evidence.
What hole(s) in this matrix need to be filled in order to satisfy a “smoking gun” criterion required by opposition/doubters - even though they don’t place the same obligation onto themselves? It does seem strange that year after year hundreds of (thousands) of dollars are donated to progress the TIGHAR investigation – where the other theories seem to have stalled out – basis the findings and rational of the ever expanding explanation of what really happened to AE and FN.
Ted Campbell