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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => News, Views, Books, Archival Data & Interviews on AE => Topic started by: richie conroy on December 16, 2011, 06:02:05 AM
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thought i would post these photo's of amelia :)
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http://radiomarine.org/gallery/show?keyword=MAU&panel=pab1_11
wonder if any of these are connected to amelia's flight
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Cool pictures.
I found an interesting one the other day. I was looking at a zoomed in image of a map that Earhart and Noonan were posing with. I was trying to see if there was any interesting writing on the map. A couple of words were there above and below the Lae to Howland route. If I could only read it... Then it came in to focus. It says "HARD PART". That was a bit of an understatement don't you think?
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u should be able to save this in jpeg an adjust contrast to see iff there is any other letters
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There is something written in the same fashion from Howland to Hawaii but I have not been able to read it yet.
.bmp is stored un-compressed like .tiff and is usually better than formats that add compression like .jpeg.
The key is good viewing software like Adobe Photoshop.
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The thing to look for is the "X" that marks the spot (where they landed). :D
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Ok, I think that I have been able to read the writing on the line from Howland to Hawaii.
I think it says :1953. I am not sure what the : could mean. With higher resolution images this would be much easier to do.
Google Earth reports a distance of 1876 miles from Howland to Honolulu, the difference would be 77 miles.
According to this, Honolulu was the final destination:
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html
Interestingly, the most Eastern airport on the big Island is at Hilo, 1935 miles from Howland to the mile. This airport existed from 1927 onward and underwent an expansion from 1937 for the next five years.
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Ok, if the numbers on this image are "2291" I am convinced that at least this course was from Hilo to Oakland, which is 2292 miles according to Google Earth.
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Ok, Googling for Earhart and Hilo...
"And though you may not be able to visit Earhart's final resting place, the banyan tree that she planted in Hilo on Jan. 6, 1935, now towering above Banyan Drive, is marked with a plaque. On O'ahu, a roadside lookout on Diamond Head Road in Kuilei Cliffs Beach Park also has a plaque commemorating Earhart, in honor of that first solo flight from Hawai'i to the Mainland. It's a fitting place to stop, gaze out to sea and remember the courage of the woman who crossed it alone."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/23/alohafriday072310.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/23/alohafriday072310.DTL)
Seriously?
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http://www.e-southerndata.com/earhart/
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http://www.e-southerndata.com/tigharpnas/ :)
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Ok, if the numbers on this image are "2291" I am convinced that at least this course was from Hilo to Oakland, which is 2292 miles according to Google Earth.
Does the name Percival Lowell ring a bell? :D
I agree with you that it appears that they were planning on Hilo. That gray blob in the middle of the chart covers the Hawaiian island chain and the course line goes to the eastern end, to the "Big Island," to Hilo.
gl
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Ok, Googling for Earhart and Hilo...
"And though you may not be able to visit Earhart's final resting place, the banyan tree that she planted in Hilo on Jan. 6, 1935, now towering above Banyan Drive, is marked with a plaque. On O'ahu, a roadside lookout on Diamond Head Road in Kuilei Cliffs Beach Park also has a plaque commemorating Earhart, in honor of that first solo flight from Hawai'i to the Mainland. It's a fitting place to stop, gaze out to sea and remember the courage of the woman who crossed it alone."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/23/alohafriday072310.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/07/23/alohafriday072310.DTL)
Seriously?
Well, she did fly solo from Hawaii to California in her Vega.
gl
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According to this, Honolulu was the final destination:
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html (http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html)
According to that map, and as we know from other sources, the final destination was Oakland.
This timeline (http://tighar.org/wiki/Timeline) shows the actual and planned distances of the legs of the journey. It has the Howland to Honolulu leg at 1900 miles--close enough to 1953, I'd say.
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Does the name Percival Lowell ring a bell?
Perhaps you are right and I am seeing things but the nice thing is that this high resolution photo does exist and I think there is enough detail there to actually read it.
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According to this, Honolulu was the final destination:
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html (http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/MapsandPhotos/maps/worldflight.html)
According to that map, and as we know from other sources, the final destination was Oakland.
This timeline (http://tighar.org/wiki/Timeline) shows the actual and planned distances of the legs of the journey. It has the Howland to Honolulu leg at 1900 miles--close enough to 1953, I'd say.
Using the location of Luke field for Honolulu, 21° 22' N, 157° 58' W and the Williams coordinates for Howland, 00° 49' N, 176° 43' W and doing the trig for the calculation of great circle distance, the answer comes out to be 1898 SM.
gl
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/tags/ameliaearhart/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4728434349/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4728435949/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4728437061/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4729083356/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4728437195/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4728437771/
some really good photo's of the electra :)
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(http://antiquehelper.rfcsystems.com/Full/948/79948_view%2002_02.jpg)
http://www.antiquehelper.com/item/373993
sextant in corner by hinge says 3339 - 1416 date 1942
so we can be sure the box on gardner was not for a brandis sextant as the number 3500 hadnt been reached by 1942
or am i assuming thats how it wud work ?
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sextant in corner by hinge says 3339 - 1416 date 1942
The label pretty clearly says "1415," not "1416."
It is already in our table of sextant numbers (http://tighar.org/wiki/Sextant_box#Sextant_Box_Numbers:_Suggestive_Patterns).
so we can be sure the box on gardner was not for a brandis sextant as the number 3500 hadnt been reached by 1942
or am i assuming that's how it would work ?
If you study the table (http://tighar.org/wiki/Sextant_box#Sextant_Box_Numbers:_Suggestive_Patterns) and the commentary that goes with it, you should be able to answer your own question.
The short version is "no."
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Richie,
In your original posting to this thread, you included the photo below of Earhart posing in the Electra's cabin, fiddling with the radio receiver. Did you get this photo off the internet? If so, do you have the website address where you got it? Was there any additional information that went with the photo, such as whatever caption the Baltimore Sun included when it published the photo? I'm mostly interested in knowing the date of the edition of the Baltimore Sun this photo was published in.
Jeff P.
(http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,545.0;attach=469;image)
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Richie,
In your original posting to this thread, you included the photo below of Earhart posing in the Electra's cabin, fiddling with the radio receiver. Did you get this photo off the internet? If so, do you have the website address where you got it? Was there any additional information that went with the photo, such as whatever caption the Baltimore Sun included when it published the photo? I'm mostly interested in knowing the date of the edition of the Baltimore Sun this photo was published in.
Jeff P.
(http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,545.0;attach=469;image)
the picture is off ebay sum time last year
but this is the caption on back of photo
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Thanks, Richie. That helps me quite a bit.