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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Jeff Lange on August 01, 2016, 09:14:04 AM
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Link to an article I saw today on facebook regarding Ann Pellegreno, a flier from my hometown who retraced Amelia Earhart's flight in the late 1960's. There is a photo of the parade our town held afterwards, which I remember well, even though I was only 6. Oh well-my small tie in to the Earhart mystery!
Michigan Today-Ann Pellegreno (http://michigantoday.umich.edu/earharts-air-apparent/)
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I took this photo of her Electra 49 years ago (Aaaargh!) in August 1967 at the EAA Fly-In in Rockford, IL (back in the pre-Oshkosh era). Ann later bought into the whole Japanese Capture idiocy but she and I had a good talk in Atchison a few years ago when I was the featured speaker at the Earhart Festival.
I just noticed the big nonstandard air scoops on the inboard side of the engines. I wonder what they were for? The airplane is a 10A with 450 hp R-985s.
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Skeet Gifford and I met her in Atchison. She tried to convince us that Rollin Reineck's book is the "real story of Amelia's disappearance."
Maybe she didn't notice our TIGHAR shirts!
Karen Hoy #2610 CER
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World Flight - the Earhart Trail is a pretty good read. I've had a copy for many years and still pull it out and read sections of it. Even in 1967 it is interesting how similar some of the problems she faced echoed the ones AE and FN had in 1937. Their difficulty seeing Howland Island and how a DF fix from the CG cutter Blackhaw enabled them to successfully overfly Howland is a strong counterpoint to the lack of communication AE and FN faced.
If you can find a copy its well-worth the time to read.
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There's four copies on ebay right now. One of them is autographed.