We're about to go to press with the 2015 edition of TIGHAR Tracks. The 60-page print version will be mailed to TIGHAR members next week. Members who have requested the PDF version will get theirs sooner.
Here's what you'll find inside:
A TIGHAR SelfieIn preparation for a major membership drive we commissioned a demographic study of the current TIGHAR membership. We always knew that TIGHARs are a special bunch but what we learned knocked our stripes off.
À Coeur ValliantA critique of recent claims of new evidence in the search for l'Oiseau Blanc, the White Bird of "valiant hearts" Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli.
What We Know About 2-2-V-1Twenty-four years after it was found, is a controversial piece of aluminum from the Earhart Electra?
Niku VIII Final ReportWhat went right, what went wrong, and what we learned from TIGHAR's June 2015 expedition to Nikumaroro
What's Next for The Earhart Project?Plans for new field work, new research, a new book, and a new documentary.
If Amelia Was Talking, She Was not SinkingResearch psychologist Dr. Guthrie Ford's ground-breaking comparative study of the language used in the diaries of doomed downed aviators, and the words reportedly used by Amelia Earhart in post-loss radio distress calls.
The Earhart Electra: From Drawing Board to Disappearance
Chapter One, "The Twin-Engined Lockheed" 1932-1934How the persistence of a precocious young engineer and the influence of an airline's celebrity consultant saved Lockheed's new "Electra" design and possibly the company itself.
Only dues-paying TIGHAR members receive TIGHAR Tracks. You can join TIGHAR at
http://tighar.org/membership.html.