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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MarineUS on March 20, 2012, 10:46:57 AM
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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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Better do it before Kiribati becomes a ghost town.
I've heard they might move the entire population to Fiji.
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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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No food, no careers, no water, billions of rats, water becoming saline....etc.
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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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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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It would be nice to find out here fate though.
She died.
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She deserves more than that as her epitaph. She is an iconic figure in American, no world aviation.
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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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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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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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See Rule #14
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See Rule #14
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See Rule #14
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(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2011/05/obama-make-it-rain.gif)
LOL! :aok
How true... how true. :rofl
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(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2011/05/obama-make-it-rain.gif)
The privately funded group is putting up $500,000 for the search. The U.S. won't provide money but will offer limited logistical support. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined Clinton at the ceremony.
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The privately funded group is putting up $500,000 for the search. The U.S. won't provide money but will offer limited logistical support. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined Clinton at the ceremony.
"Limited Logistical Support" > $500,000
Doing a legitimate search > $500,000
True Story.
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See Rule #14
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(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2011/05/obama-make-it-rain.gif)
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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She might have made a nice meal for someone :aok
:cheers: Oz
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This sounds nice but I doubt that there are any remains of Earheart or the plane there in the island. The Island was inhabited by folks until after the early 50's. Since they were not "primitive" folks and had outside communications any indication of a find of Earheart's stuff would have been really big news even back then. That is not a large island by any means and there is really no place the plane could have gotten "lost" and remained unfound while the folks were living there.
My guess is the plane landed in the open ocean and probably crashed killing both of them. She was not reputed to be that great of a "stick" and a water landing is not easy. The bird and they are on the bottom of the ocean, RIP.
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There are people who claim to have been present at her execution but there was also a claim her skeleton was found and lost along with a sextant box.
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I have a bridge for sale... its very nice. Great view.
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I have a bridge for sale... its very nice. Great view.
How much? I have cash in hand :aok
:salute
BigRat
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You'll find Sadam and Ali-D sipping mai-tais together at a resort in the Bahamas.
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How much? I have cash in hand :aok
:salute
BigRat
Well Ill throw you a discount for half and thatll bring it down to around 2000. :D
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"Limited Logistical Support" > $500,000
Doing a legitimate search > $500,000
True Story.
-$14,000,000,000,000.00 and counting.
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-$14,000,000,000,000.00 and counting.
Lol I wish it was that low. I believe it is more in the realm of -$15,500,000,000,000
To put it lightly we are so fracked
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Yes... buried 3-5 miles underwater.
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All the fanciful theories regarding her death I just don't buy. There is something about the death of famous people that prevents folks from wanting to accept that they just died in a rather matter of fact straight forward way. Her plane ran out of fuel and the crew was lost at sea. The end. We accept that for almost anybody else but since its Earheart there has to be a dozen theories ranging from UFOs to the Japanese. Take away the fame factor and all that goes away. We have here flight plan, her plane was low on fuel, we know she never made the island she was aiming for...whats the big mystery? other than the exact resting place at the oceans bottom? It would realy be something to find the aircraft I agree... I just don't buy all the bizzare explanations.
Look at Marilyn Monroe. She can't just have OD'd on pills...there has to be a CIA (or Mob) hitman involved because she had a fling with JFK. Any other "girl on the side" that overdosed nobody would be writing book after book on whats a straight forward accidental death. She was famous so there has to be some extravagant plot to do her in by nefarious and dastardly means. I have no doubt somebody has a book out there somewhere that blames the Japanese on her death too. Or a UFO. Or Bigfoot.
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Doppelpfosten
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*sigh*