Amelia Earhart day

Tom

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Yesterday was Amelia Earhart Day. It was celebrated almost all the way around the world.
 

Pistolero

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Her home isn't far from here, Atchison, KS. She was brave but actually not a very good pilot, and not much of
a navigator, too. If you look closely at her record, she busted up a lot of aircraft. Still, very ambitious, brave
and willing to dare greatly.
 

smokeywolf

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If Amelia gets her own day, then Pancho Barnes should have her own day too. Not to make light of Amelia's accomplishments, Miss Barnes was, in my opinion, quite a bit more interesting.
 

KHornet

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Have always thought the Japs got her!
Agree with Bill, that she was no great shakes as a pilot OR navigator.

Paul
 
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Pistolero

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I think the folks that have focussed in on this island. I think this group's story fits the info the best.
Landed on the reef at low tide, able to send radio messages for a while, but the aircraft washed off
of the reef later into deeper water. A few possible artifacts and bones found, too.

This is my personal choice as best of all the theories out there. Mostly because there were many radio
amateurs who picked up her signals and were disbelieved at the time, thought to be hoaxers. I suspect
that they got some calls out for a while (hours? days??) but radio reception at sea level is only night
skip, super irregular, even though it CAN be heard for thousands of miles if conditions are right, just
impossible to predict WHERE.

 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I thought I read that there was DNA confirmation that they'd found her? Of course, there was also a 98% DNA confirmation that a guy died in a fire, and then he showed up in town 3 or 4 months later, so....
 

Pistolero

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Never heard about anyone having any actual bones that could be checked. The bones that were recovered
were taken to a doc who examined them, wrote a report and they are now unaccounted for.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
So, Amelia spat in the tube and mailed it to Ancestry.com?
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Huh, can't find anything on it now, but I swear I read that they had more bones. Whatever!