1938 Photos Study Group

[Monty Fowler]

Wow - now THAT level of detail is impressive.

Well, well worth the trip to NZ, I'd say!

LTM, who gets tired of squinting at pixels,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 CER

[Tim Mellon]

I assume the Study Group has studied this object. It appears in the shape of a fuselage with a stubbed port wing, rounded where one would expect to find the engine, empennage missing, but open aft. A dark area appears in the position of the Pilot's hatch. The rear of the apparent fuselage seems to be somewhat elevated and casting a shadow on the bottom.

[Tim Collins]

See below.

from the Wiki page re Norwich City Survivors' Shelter to give some idea as to scale: "Both Norwich City lifeboats washed ashore on Gardner. They were likely 26' in length and weighed 1800 pounds fully equipped."

[Bill Mangus]

What is the cylindrical-looking object viewed end-on at the left edge of the frame right at the edge of the shrub/tree line?

[richie conroy]

Hi BMangus

That is just a flaw in image

Tim can u provide the reference number for image ? 

[Tim Mellon]

Tim can u provide the reference number for image ?

Richie, it's from frame #47, the last in the entire series which we ordered from the Museum (<$800, BTW). Resolution is approx. 15000 squared.

[Ric Gillespie]

Tim can u provide the reference number for image ?

Richie, Tim's "apparent fuselage" is in our _DSC347.  It's also in the July 18, 2012 GeoEye satellite image.  Like all of Tim's airplane parts it's made out of coral.  I've walked past it many times.

[Tim Mellon]

Like all of Tim's airplane parts it's made out of coral.  I've walked past it many times.

Thank Goodness for an eye-witness account in which I can believe. But Ric, are you sure it is coral, and say, not lava? Have you had a sample analyzed?

[Ric Gillespie]

But Ric, are you sure it is coral, and say, not lava?

Quite sure. I suggest you read up on coral atolls. 

[Jeff Palshook]

Ric, or someone in the photos study group -- Can you indicate on the satellite image of the island where the image of the Norwich City lifeboat is located?

Thanks,

Jeff P.

[Tim Collins]

DSC0272 - the last of the '38 photos on Tighar's Flikr photo stream. On the near left hand shore just to the right of the scratch in the film. 

[Ric Gillespie]

This image shows where the lifeboat is in relation to the shipwreck - just where it should be.  BTW, what's that thing back in the bushes?

[Ric Gillespie]

BTW, what's that thing back in the bushes?

Here's a closer look.

[Tim Collins]

Looks like an airplane. Note fuselage, wing and engine (port) nacelle.

Just as camels in the sky, these fotos are very conducive to bunnies in the bushes.

[Tim Collins]

Is that a trail in the bush as you look at it to the right?

I've been looking at that "trail", and the more I study it, it looks to me to be a flaw in the negative.

Any suggestions as to scale in that vicinity?  there's a pretty big boulder just off the beach below it, any guess as to the size?

As for who found it - that's Ric's credit, I just put words to it. Unless it's the breakthrough we've all been waiting for, then I'm all over it!