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"Personnel unfitness"

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	=== "Personnel unfitness" ===		=== "Personnel unfitness" ===
	; [[Gore Vidal]] made this claim in the [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/earhart/transcript/1/ WGBH American Experience] show<nowiki>:</nowiki>		; [[Gore Vidal]] made this claim in the [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/earhart/transcript/1/ WGBH American Experience] show, [[Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage]]<nowiki>:</nowiki>

	:"Well, just the night before the final flight, she reported in and they had a code phrase, 'personnel problems,' which meant Noonan was back drinking. And my father said, 'Just stop it right now and come home,' and G.P. agreed and said, 'Come back, abort the flight, forget it, come home.' And then she said, 'Oh, no,' and she said, 'I think it’ll be all right,' something like that. So you may put that down to invincible optimism or it may have been huge pessimism."		:"Well, just the night before the final flight, she reported in and they had a code phrase, 'personnel problems,' which meant Noonan was back drinking. And my father said, 'Just stop it right now and come home,' and G.P. agreed and said, 'Come back, abort the flight, forget it, come home.' And then she said, 'Oh, no,' and she said, 'I think it’ll be all right,' something like that. So you may put that down to invincible optimism or it may have been huge pessimism."

Moleski: /* Message Traffic */

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Message Traffic

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	[handwritten annotations]		[handwritten annotations]
	= 9:30 ~~Pnm sent~~.<br>		= 9:30 PM GMT.<br>
	= at Lae 7:30 AM.<br>		= at Lae 7:30 AM.<br>
	= 1:30 PST<br>		= 1:30 PST<br>

Moleski: /* Francis "Fuzz" Furman */

2012-01-11T23:19:56Z

Francis "Fuzz" Furman

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	:: When the Electra's navigation station was set up by Paul Mantz and Harry Manning prior to the first world flight attempt, three chronometers were supposedly shock-mounted in the navigator's table in the cabin. All that stuff was torn out during the repairs which followed the Luke Field crash and it appears unlikely that Noonan had it reinstalled.		:: When the Electra's navigation station was set up by Paul Mantz and Harry Manning prior to the first world flight attempt, three chronometers were supposedly shock-mounted in the navigator's table in the cabin. All that stuff was torn out during the repairs which followed the Luke Field crash and it appears unlikely that Noonan had it reinstalled.

	; [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1990Vol_6/bookcase.pdf ''TIGHAR Tracks,'' "Bookcase Update" (1990).]		:; [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1990Vol_6/bookcase.pdf ''TIGHAR Tracks,'' "Bookcase Update" (1990).]

	: Francis O. “Fuzz” Furman remembers a great deal about the time he spent with AE and Fred in Java while they were having some repairs made to the airplane. Fuzz was the representative of the Martin Company servicing the new B-10 bombers used by the Netherlands East Indies Air Force. He spent five days with Earhart and Noonan while mechanics fixed a broken exhaust gas analyser on the Electra. He remembers that AE kept to herself, took her meals in her room, and frequently called her husband, George Putnam, on the telephone. Furman spent most of his time with Fred Noonan, who he remembers as being quite concerned about the upcoming Howland leg. But far from hitting the bottle as some have alleged, Fuzz remembers Fred as never taking a drink while he was in Java, and being almost obsessive about checking his chronometers for accuracy. He does not remember Fred having his navigational books out of the airplane, nor did Fuzz ever have occasion to board the Electra, so he was unable to help us regarding the bookcase.		:: Francis O. “Fuzz” Furman remembers a great deal about the time he spent with AE and Fred in Java while they were having some repairs made to the airplane. Fuzz was the representative of the Martin Company servicing the new B-10 bombers used by the Netherlands East Indies Air Force. He spent five days with Earhart and Noonan while mechanics fixed a broken exhaust gas analyser on the Electra. He remembers that AE kept to herself, took her meals in her room, and frequently called her husband, George Putnam, on the telephone. Furman spent most of his time with Fred Noonan, who he remembers as being quite concerned about the upcoming Howland leg. But far from hitting the bottle as some have alleged, Fuzz remembers Fred as never taking a drink while he was in Java, and being almost obsessive about checking his chronometers for accuracy. He does not remember Fred having his navigational books out of the airplane, nor did Fuzz ever have occasion to board the Electra, so he was unable to help us regarding the bookcase.

	== July 1: Eventful day ==		== July 1: Eventful day ==

Moleski: /* Francis "Fuzz" Furman */

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Francis "Fuzz" Furman

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	:: When the Electra's navigation station was set up by Paul Mantz and Harry Manning prior to the first world flight attempt, three chronometers were supposedly shock-mounted in the navigator's table in the cabin. All that stuff was torn out during the repairs which followed the Luke Field crash and it appears unlikely that Noonan had it reinstalled.		:: When the Electra's navigation station was set up by Paul Mantz and Harry Manning prior to the first world flight attempt, three chronometers were supposedly shock-mounted in the navigator's table in the cabin. All that stuff was torn out during the repairs which followed the Luke Field crash and it appears unlikely that Noonan had it reinstalled.

			; [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1990Vol_6/bookcase.pdf ''TIGHAR Tracks,'' "Bookcase Update" (1990).]

			: Francis O. “Fuzz” Furman remembers a great deal about the time he spent with AE and Fred in Java while they were having some repairs made to the airplane. Fuzz was the representative of the Martin Company servicing the new B-10 bombers used by the Netherlands East Indies Air Force. He spent five days with Earhart and Noonan while mechanics fixed a broken exhaust gas analyser on the Electra. He remembers that AE kept to herself, took her meals in her room, and frequently called her husband, George Putnam, on the telephone. Furman spent most of his time with Fred Noonan, who he remembers as being quite concerned about the upcoming Howland leg. But far from hitting the bottle as some have alleged, Fuzz remembers Fred as never taking a drink while he was in Java, and being almost obsessive about checking his chronometers for accuracy. He does not remember Fred having his navigational books out of the airplane, nor did Fuzz ever have occasion to board the Electra, so he was unable to help us regarding the bookcase.

	== July 1: Eventful day ==		== July 1: Eventful day ==

Moleski: /* The Brines Letter */

2012-01-11T22:38:05Z

The Brines Letter

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	* He did not personally witness Noonan drinking in Lae, but only imagined it as a possible explanation of the loss of the aircraft.		* He did not personally witness Noonan drinking in Lae, but only imagined it as a possible explanation of the loss of the aircraft.
	* He has not talked with ("interviewed") anyone in Lae who did see Noonan drinking irresponsibly.		* He has not talked with ("interviewed") anyone in Lae who did see Noonan drinking irresponsibly.

			==== Francis "Fuzz" Furman ====

			:; [[Ric Gillespie]], [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Forum/Forum_Archives/199805.txt Forum, 4 Feb 1999.]

			:: For what it's worth, we have a good anecdote on this subject. Way back in 1988 we interviewed Francis "Fuzz" Furman who was the Martin Aircraft factory rep in Bandoeng, Java when AE and Fred spent a few days there in late June (the Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force had a bunch of Martin B-10s). Fuzz spent quite a bit of time with Noonan both on and off duty. One thing that stuck in his memory was that Fred always carried his chronometer in his pocket and was obsessive about checking its accuracy at any opportunity. (Fuzz also said that he and Fred went out at night and that Fred never touched a drink, even though Fuzz was drinking.)

			:: When the Electra's navigation station was set up by Paul Mantz and Harry Manning prior to the first world flight attempt, three chronometers were supposedly shock-mounted in the navigator's table in the cabin. All that stuff was torn out during the repairs which followed the Luke Field crash and it appears unlikely that Noonan had it reinstalled.

	== July 1: Eventful day ==		== July 1: Eventful day ==

Moleski: /* Message Traffic */

2012-01-10T05:58:03Z

Message Traffic

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2012-01-10T02:07:38Z

Message Traffic

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Moleski: /* Links */

2012-01-10T01:59:36Z

Links

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	* [[Timezones]].		* [[Timezones]].
	* [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/37_ItascaLogs/traffic.html "The Radio Logs of the USCG Itasca."]		* [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/37_ItascaLogs/traffic.html "The Radio Logs of the USCG Itasca."]
			* [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/JacobsonDatabase/JacobsonDB.html "Jacobson Databases."]
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Links

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	* [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Research/Bulletins/27_LaeGallery/27_LaeGallery.html A Lae photo gallery.]		* [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Research/Bulletins/27_LaeGallery/27_LaeGallery.html A Lae photo gallery.]
	* [[Timezones]].		* [[Timezones]].
			* [http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/37_ItascaLogs/traffic.html "The Radio Logs of the USCG Itasca."]

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	[[Category:Radio considerations]]		[[Category:Radio considerations]]
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	"Sometime that day, Amelia phoned in a story to the Tribune describing the flight from Darwin and the airfield at Lae: 'Everyone has been as helpful and cooperative as possible—food, hot baths, mechanical service, radio and weather reports, advice from veteran pilots here—all combine to make us wish we could stay. However, tomorrow about noon we hope to be rolling down the runway, bound for points east.'"<ref>(''[[Finding Amelia]]'', p.71)</ref>		"Sometime that day, Amelia phoned in a story to the Tribune describing the flight from Darwin and the airfield at Lae: 'Everyone has been as helpful and cooperative as possible—food, hot baths, mechanical service, radio and weather reports, advice from veteran pilots here—all combine to make us wish we could stay. However, tomorrow about noon we hope to be rolling down the runway, bound for points east.'"<ref>(''[[Finding Amelia]]'', p.71)</ref>
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