Life magazine has put out one of its periodic specials, this one titled, Vanished: The Stories of Those Who Went Missing. You can imagine whose picture is on the cover, sitting at the controls of our favorite Lockheed Electra. The story on pages 42-45 is admittedly brief, but does give a nod to the TIGHAR hypothesis (while stating that two freckle cream jars were found on Nikumaroro).
What interested me was the photo on pages 4-5, captioned, Amelia Earhart takes off from Florida in June 1937 at the start of her ill-fated trip around the world. It shows an oblique rear three-quarters view of the left side of NR 16020 about 20 feet above the ground.
No flaps are in use.
LTM, who tries to keep his flaps flipped up at all times,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189EC