How does one go off into the night, searching for a sliver of land that means your life, without knowing how to use or verifying the reliability of the one piece of equipment that is essential for finding that sliver of land? How does one set off to fly around the world in 1937 without knowing Morse code? Neither is rational and yet we know she did both.
I agree 100%,.....I believe when asked a similar question by someone , she responded " Why do I need those things? I have a navigator" ....or something to that effect.
It seems Amelia, was very fond of map H.O. 5192, I already attached a few images of this map in my preceding post,....here she is with another one;
http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/earhart/id/221/rec/684This one seems the clearest, and one can make out various cities in the legend.
That makes at least three times she posed with that particular map, and seem to show the Phoenix group. Here is another version;
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/6776/Ric,
You posted this in late August-
http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,1728.msg38138.html#msg38138"...Fred did not plot routes all across the Pacific. Fred worked only for Pan Am and only on the route across the North Pacific. His experience as a mariner was confined to the Atlantic and South America.
Quote from: Bob Smith on August 26, 2015, 04:39:37 PM
Even if officially accurate charts were not yet available, wouldn't somebody like Fred have to know where the islands were and their proximity to each other?
No. Officially accurate charts almost certainly were available. The charts he needed were the charts that covered his proposed route.
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Ric,
Most of the charts actually used to plot the route around the world were probably ordered directly from the "General Catalogue of Mariners' and Aviators' Charts, Corrected to January 1935 U.S. Hydrographic Office"
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822008699613;view=1up;seq=166The H.O. chart that depicts Howland Island in large scale, and in the greatest detail- No. 1198- is listed
under the heading- "Islands Northwest of Phoenix Islands."
http://i.imgur.com/1qBOLvD.png 20 cents !...mark that a bargain
Another item; A bit before the Earhart lifeoff from lae, there was an expedition to study the solar eclipse at canton island;
This article;
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/PA.../0045//0000253.000.htmlIt has been covered here on Tighar before as well ;
http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,360.0.html ....one wonders how much Amelia and Fred knew about the group and their activities on Canton?