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Title: Earhart
Post by: Groth on October 29, 2014, 05:11:38 PM
 Followed this for a while...what a terrible way to go, fighting all the way w/seriously flawed crew member...and yes. I know she was not considered very talented especially compared to women aviators of her era..
 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/29/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified/ (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/29/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified/)
                                                     JGroth
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: tmetal on October 29, 2014, 05:22:21 PM
Wow. good read; will be awesome if they find 100% definitive proof
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: Scherf on October 29, 2014, 05:51:41 PM
Is this TIGHAR again?
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: Ack-Ack on October 29, 2014, 07:17:08 PM
Quote from: Scherf on October 29, 2014, 05:51:41 PM
Is this TIGHAR again?

Yes.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: DaveBB on October 29, 2014, 07:33:13 PM
Quote from: Groth on October 29, 2014, 05:11:38 PM
Followed this for a while...what a terrible way to go, fighting all the way w/seriously flawed crew member...and yes. I know she was not considered very talented especially compared to women aviators of her era..
 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/29/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified/ (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/29/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified/)
                                                     JGroth

When you say 'seriously flawed crew member', are you talking about Fred Noonan? What was wrong with him?
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: Groth on October 29, 2014, 10:18:01 PM
 And here I'd thought I'd be called on carpet for saying Emilia lacked skills....
                                                                                  JGroth
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: Karnak on October 29, 2014, 10:38:15 PM
Quote from: Groth on October 29, 2014, 10:18:01 PM
And here I'd thought I'd be called on carpet for saying Emilia lacked skills....
                                                                                  JGroth
I thought that was common knowledge among aviation enthusiasts.  She was being pushed beyond her skill level by people benefiting from her fame.  Her gender was not the cause of her skill level, there were and are women perfectly capable of doing those flights, but she had looks as well.
Title: Re: Earhart
Post by: Charge on October 30, 2014, 12:29:20 PM
So, she wasn't captured and executed by the Japanese on Saipan them...

http://earhartonsaipan.blogspot.com

I found the TIGHAR article interesting where they gave the reasons why her radio was as bad as it was.

-C+