I was a USAF navigator (B-52), 67-72. Have read quite a bit about the disappearance of of Earhart and her navigator, Noonan.
Imagine trying to find this speck of sand, barely 20 feet high, in the pacific, after flying all night from Lae, one of the longest overwater flights ever attempted at that time.
All they had was a hand-held sextant and a sunshot line of position, with a cumulative dead reckoning error of 10 nautical miles an hour due to erroneous wind speed reports, trying to find this island which was plotted 6 miles west of its true position on their chart. The navy could hear her tansmissions, but she was monitoring the navy transmissions on the wrong frequency. She had a short wire antenna on top the plane for her voice radios, and could switch to a loop for direction finding, but could not transmit when using the loop. The loop was not capable of receiving the 5 and 6 Mhz bands which were being transmitted by the navy for her to hone in her approach to the Island. Amelia had never practiced using radio direction finding or the loop, nor was she aware that the band switch settings on her high frequency radio did not match the antenna coupler settings for the loop antenna. None of her previous legs had required radio direction finding for position determination.
Her long wire antenna for 500KC had been removed months ago when her plane was repaired after the take off crash on Hawaii for the the first attempt. The long wire was only for CW, and neither Amelia or Noonan knew morse code. It is believed she had only 30 minutes or less fuel left at Howland.
Despite all the speculation and crazy theories surrounding her disappearance, it is most likely that the Electra and their remains are are some 14,000 feet below the pacific, probabaly about 15-25 nautical miles nw of Howland Island.
It's one of the two artificial ponds on the Düne. Until 1970, the two ponds are the only fresh water ressource on the islet. After that year, the Düne was conducted to the water line system of the main land.
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ein recht herzliches danke von hier. Grüße von der Küste. Holger
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So etwas interessantes sieht man ja nicht jeden Tag - Glückwunsch und LIKE 1 von Wolfgang -
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I was a USAF navigator (B-52), 67-72. Have read quite a bit about the disappearance of of Earhart and her navigator, Noonan.
Imagine trying to find this speck of sand, barely 20 feet high, in the pacific, after flying all night from Lae, one of the longest overwater flights ever attempted at that time.
All they had was a hand-held sextant and a sunshot line of position, with a cumulative dead reckoning error of 10 nautical miles an hour due to erroneous wind speed reports, trying to find this island which was plotted 6 miles west of its true position on their chart. The navy could hear her tansmissions, but she was monitoring the navy transmissions on the wrong frequency. She had a short wire antenna on top the plane for her voice radios, and could switch to a loop for direction finding, but could not transmit when using the loop. The loop was not capable of receiving the 5 and 6 Mhz bands which were being transmitted by the navy for her to hone in her approach to the Island. Amelia had never practiced using radio direction finding or the loop, nor was she aware that the band switch settings on her high frequency radio did not match the antenna coupler settings for the loop antenna. None of her previous legs had required radio direction finding for position determination.
Her long wire antenna for 500KC had been removed months ago when her plane was repaired after the take off crash on Hawaii for the the first attempt. The long wire was only for CW, and neither Amelia or Noonan knew morse code. It is believed she had only 30 minutes or less fuel left at Howland.
Despite all the speculation and crazy theories surrounding her disappearance, it is most likely that the Electra and their remains are are some 14,000 feet below the pacific, probabaly about 15-25 nautical miles nw of Howland Island.
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It's one of the two artificial ponds on the Düne. Until 1970, the two ponds are the only fresh water ressource on the islet. After that year, the Düne was conducted to the water line system of the main land.
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Esta isla es Venezolana ... Buena Foto ... Saludos desde Maracay
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Quièn descubriò esta Isla? ¿Hay agua potable?, gracias que Dios nos permite poder ver cosas como èstas que caben en la imaginaciòn de un escritor.
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Excellent composition.
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Ja, das kann sein, war zur Zeit des Flächenbrandes!
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thanks :-)
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Hi Anajara,
did you forget me ? :-) I'll hope, that you will find time to scan the photos and mail it to me....
P L E A S E !!!!!!!!
Greetings to Colombia :-) :-) uenue
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