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Offline MarineUS

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US enters search for remains of Earheart
« on: March 20, 2012, 10:46:57 AM »
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/20/10774735-us-joins-search-for-amelia-earhart-remains-after-new-photo-analysis


"By msnbc.com staff and news services

Citing new analysis of a photo that could show wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it was joining a search in June to finally solve the mystery of America's greatest female aviator.

"We can be as optimistic, audacious as Earhart," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to announce U.S. support for the expedition. "There is great honor and possibility in the search itself."

The search by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery will focus on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati.

The group believes Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan might have managed to land on the island, then known as Gardner Island, and that they could have survived for a short time after disappearing on July 2, 1937.

Other historians believe they crashed into the ocean. But conspiracy theories, including claims that they were U.S. government agents captured by the Japanese before World War II, abound despite having been largely debunked."

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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2012, 12:51:12 PM »
Better do it before Kiribati becomes a ghost town.

I've heard they might move the entire population to Fiji.
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2012, 12:53:01 PM »
Quote from: icepac on March 20, 2012, 12:51:12 PM
Better do it before Kiribati becomes a ghost town.

I've heard they might move the entire population to Fiji.

Why is Kiribati becoming a ghost town?
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2012, 01:01:03 PM »
No food, no careers, no water, billions of rats, water becoming saline....etc.
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2012, 01:18:30 PM »
Quote from: icepac on March 20, 2012, 01:01:03 PM
No food, no careers, no water, billions of rats, water becoming saline....etc.

^ yep.

Funny, I saw that sitting in the dentist's chair this morning :rofl
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2012, 02:13:54 PM »
Jackie Cochran herself a better aviator than Earhart, considered it was almost suicide, she lost her antennae on take off which didn't help. She also pointed out that it took a week for the US Navy to find Howland Island even with their own shipboard aviators. What chance did Earhart have? She wasn't that good a pilot and even with Noonan's help it was a huge ask!

It would be nice to find out here fate though.
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2012, 04:29:27 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on March 20, 2012, 02:13:54 PM
It would be nice to find out here fate though.


She died.
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2012, 05:28:49 PM »
She deserves more than that as her epitaph. She is an iconic figure in American, no world aviation.
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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2012, 05:42:38 PM »
She is mostly know for being the woman who got the most lost in modern history. Very few people know of her earlier accomplishments as a pilot.
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2012, 06:16:28 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on March 20, 2012, 05:28:49 PM
She deserves more than that as her epitaph. She is an iconic figure in American, no world aviation.

Agreed...very well put
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2012, 06:50:41 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on March 20, 2012, 05:28:49 PM
She deserves more than that as her epitaph. She is an iconic figure in American, no world aviation.

This is true, but it bothers me that there where so many other pioneering female aviators (many of whom were regarded as better pilots) who never got the recognition of Earhart.  

It may sound chauvinistic, but this is the truth;  There are many female aviators of that era and before who are deserving as just as much honor as Earhart, yet the reasons they are not household names is because they didn't have George Putnam as a husband, where not as attractive and fashionable, and though some of them died flying too, they didn't disappear into the unknown.

Amelia Earhart is a household name, but what about Jackie Cochran, or Elinor Smith, or Amy Johnson, or Bessie Coleman just to name a few?
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2012, 08:35:57 PM »
See Rule #14
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2012, 09:45:11 PM »
See Rule #14
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2012, 09:59:11 PM »
See Rule #14
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Re: US enters search for remains of Earheart
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2012, 10:22:46 PM »
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