CRJ_simpilot Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the first female pilot to fly around the world, and her 1937 disappearance has become one of the great mysteries of our time. History Did Amelia Earhart Survive Plane Crash? Newly Discovered Photo Offers Clues Now the makers of a new investigative special from the History Channel believe they have "the smoking gun" that answers the question of Earhart's disappearance aboard her Lockheed Electra once and for all: an old, cracked photograph found in the National Archives, showing a group of people on a dock in the Marshall Islands. Among the figures: two people who just might be Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/06/535861448/does-a-newly-discovered-photo-show-amelia-earhart-survived-a-crash-landing OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Craig Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 I'm beside myself with excitement, see there I am right there and here, at the same time, amazing :cool: yawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okbob Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Is that Gina Lolabrigida in the picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Yeah, I saw her in the Walmart today. And the guy next to her looked suspiciously like Elvis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjohnston Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Clearly, none of you watched Star Trek Voyager. They were among a group people spirited away to another planet by aliens! Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Nels_Anderson Posted July 9, 2017 Founder Share Posted July 9, 2017 The photo is interesting, but the people in it are awful small and the "plane" on the barge also very small and blurry. If there were other evidence to go with it, it would be a lot more interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Every few years another such theory surfaces. I like the one where she was on a clandestine mission for the US government, photographing Japanese bases, and was shot down and captured. But Occam's Razor applies. The most probable explanation is simply a major malfunction of the aircraft, so sudden and/or so violent they had no time to use the radio. By today's standards even the best aircraft of that era were not paragons of reliability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 This just gets better. Forensic sniffer dogs have found the spot where Amelia Earhart died: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amelia-earhart-castaway-sniffer-dogs-10773111 The original FOX NEWS piece from 2 days ago is now missing as well... Coincidence, or CONSPIRACY!!! We have the right to know!!! :p Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Right! I had completely forgotten about this. It's cucumber time, a.k.a. the silly season :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Right! I had completely forgotten about this. It's cucumber time, a.k.a. the silly season :rolleyes: Apparently there's an Amelia Earhart two-hour special coming up on CNN, I suspect it's all a publicity stunt for that. I hope it all does lead to the remains being found, the lady deserves a decent burial on her home soil. Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Apparently there's an Amelia Earhart two-hour special coming up on CNN, I suspect it's all a publicity stunt for that. I hope it all does lead to the remains being found, the lady deserves a decent burial on her home soil. True, but according to National Geographic the chances of extracting DNA from that kind of tropical environment are rare, I doubt there will ever be conclusive evidence that she died on Nikumaroro, but who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftldave Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Many of these hard-to-believe claims come from individuals and groups seeking financial backing for new search expeditions. Amelia is a great, politically-correct historical figure, even though Gore Vidal, who knew her well, stated more than once, "She just wasn't a very good pilot." Others who knew her shared that opinion, like photographer Andrea Fisher who said, "One thing is that I don't think she was a very good pilot and if I was as bad as her, I never would have started off around the world." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Looks like the photo has already been debunked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted July 12, 2017 Author Share Posted July 12, 2017 Gillespie believes Earhart died as a castaway on the island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, where a partial skeleton was discovered in 1940. Do they still have the skeleton? Do they know if it's a female or not? And what about the navigator? OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekkaihla Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Do they still have the skeleton? Do they know if it's a female or not? And what about the navigator? If my memory serves me correct, those skeletal remains got lost during the WW2. I believe it was originally classified as a male, but based on some surviving measurements and info, another expert later thought it could have been female. As it is no longer available for study, we'll most likely never know if it had anything to do with Earhart or Noonan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 Figures. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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