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Tighar has been looking in the wrong spot for years. No way she had the fuel to reach Gardner. The Electra would float. It was carrying 1092 gallons of fuel and 0 gallons when she crashed. The tankage would displace at least 1092 gallons of water at 8 pounds/gallon or 8,736 pounds. The aircraft weighed around 7,000 pounds. 8,736 > 7,000 = floats.

With all respect for Amelia, Fred and those who for decades relentlessly pursued the answers. Perhaps at this juncture it may be best to put search efforts to rest, considering the tremendous cost and possible health and safety risks to the searchers. I think most experts would agree on the most likely cause of the disappearance. Difficulties with navigation and radio communication led to the exhaustion of fuel. Even if it was discovered that they were captured by the Japanese, what would be done about it in today's political environment? Ask for an apology from allies who's parents weren't even alive when this incident occurred?

The hypothesis is that she landed on the reef near the wreckage of the Norwich City. Then according to the TIGHAR theory, she left the Electra and all of their survival gear except for some odd things like a Freckle Cream bottle and hiked 3.5 miles to the far side of the island and died at the "7 site". That is about as far as you can get away from the Norwich City. Is that logical?

It makes sense if they were blown south and looking for Howland and decided after circling and not finding it to go south where there are more islands. Or even thinking they did find Howland and saying we can't see you meaning the ship. I agree with radio signals and propagation. On 5.262 MHz my signals are weak and only just audible at Hack Green online receiving station 40 miles away but I am able to get to Mallaig almost 300 miles away to make a contact. This is with 2 Watts out. My contacts have been between 80 miles and 284. It's not a popular frequency so I don't know how much further my signal would go. It works this way for ground based stations but having never flown in a plane with radio I can't say about that propagation mode. That donut is known as the dead zone or skip zone. Beddie Clink and the New York City reference does sound interesting. Bill, amateur radio call sign G4GHB.

Im listening to this video and all i see is Kermit the Frog talking

Note..An importsant fact is where them sonar image was taken off Howland island. This was Earhart's last reported location. If it were some other airplane that rolled off a carrier what are the chances that it would have done that at Earharts last location. THERE IS NOT OTHER AIRCRAFT REPORTED MISSING IN THIS AREA. wAKE UP. That fact couped with the size of the image and the distinctive tale piece show clear evidance that Earharts plane has been found near Howland island , where she ran out of fuel, and not 400 miles away. Robart Ballad did and exhaustive 2 million dollar search in the waters around Gardiner island where you say the plane was washed over into the ocean and he found no trace of the place. A whole plane just does not dissolve like and alka seltzer. Get real Ric.

You should remove this misinformation crap from you tube. Her plane was already founbd off howland island.

Theory is Unsupported by dual sourced facts. And OJ is innocent.

I purchased your book about Earhart on Amazon, so I feel I can speak my mind. All you wannbes screwing around with a lot of insane theories. Occam's Razor says the simplest solution is the solution. All you desperate little guys that don't have the multi million dollar resources and know how to search the sea in her last known location, near Howland island. But you are desperate to be part of the search for amelia but in a penny Annie way. You have turned the amelia mystery into a cottage industry. Now that the plane has been found using expensive and sophisticated deep-sea robots that are way beyond your means, you question it. Instead of being overjoyed that the mystery is finally solved you stand steadfast to defend your silly theories. Really, Earhart being eaten by crabs. Don't you think that if she were on such an island she would have eaten the crabs herself? Now that her plane has been found 400 miles north of where you have been investigating for 35 years, what will you say and do next? I will file your silly book alongside of the book I purchased 10 years ago about Earhart living in New Jersey under an assumed name.

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The found the aircraft 100 off howlands island near its last location.

If she was out of fuel, how'd she run the engine to recharge the battery? Plot hole right there.

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The trouble with Ric he does not use science or even flight records of erarharts last flight.

TIGHAR is not based on True data. They never followed the nactual flight log of Earhart.

A lot is being made of Betty's Notebook. But I find it very curious that Betty also wrote down on one of the pages in her notebook the letters "KGMB". KGMB happened to be the call sign for a broadcast radio station on the air at the time from Honolulu Hawaii broadcasting on a frequency of 1320. It was also carrying the radio program "The March Of Time". That program was a news and reenactment program of current events of the day. In it, actors would play the part of newsworthy characters. It so happens that one of those stories was about Amelia Earhart. Probably many times during the search efforts. I suspect that what Betty heard was the skip wave from that broadcast on radio station KGMB.

I think she ditched in the ocean between Howland and Gardner island, and the radio messages that followed where trolls after they heard she was missing

A British officer and his survey crew indeed landed on Gardner Island in October of 1937. Their ship was tied up to the stern of the shipwreck. They spent 3 days searching and exploring the island. His name was H.E. Maude. He made a very detailed report of what was on the island and the feasibility of supporting a small population of Islanders from other islands. His report is more than 30 pages long. There is no mention in his report of aircraft wreckage found on the reef or anywhere on the island. Also, in January 1941 the schooner Nimanoa landed a party on Gardner and did not mention any airplane wreckage on the reef.

As a former USAF navigator with a fair amount of celestial navigation experience I wouldn't want to make their trip with their equipment in poor weather. A publicly stunt gone awry.

She flew past Howland Island

Over 2,000 miles in a loud prop plane no thanks. My head would explode

She wouldn't have been held captive. Japan was famous for beheading

Sandwiches are important. She was probably hangry abd over shot the island

Fascinating report. You appear to have covered absolutely everything and I wish you well into the future. I do wonder what survival gear they may have carried for such a trip in those days. Rgds from Australia.

If they maid it to a island why not make a sos sign or smoke signal

How did Earhart know that ship wreck was the SS Norwich City? any names must have been eroded off.

There were a LOT of inaccuracies from that History Ch. Documentary. They even said the Electra was the first all-metal plane EVER built. Simply NOT true. That's just one example. But there were a LOT of mistakes in that show.

Was looking at Tighar website and can’t find where they have located and recovered any historic aircraft?

I bet the aircraft is sitting at about 6,000m on the ocean floor.

The thing that doesn't add up about the radio signals after flight ceased: Nobody heard exactly the same thing. If you had several independent reports all saying the same thing, then that would have something, but all can be dismissed, because they didn't hear the same thing.

I think the radio signals on a harmonic are at best unlikely. A contemporary navigator worked the numbers on this and put her final radio call at around 0 deg 10 min N 175 deg 55 min W. That's around 58nm SE of Howland and several hundred miles from Nukimoro. He also stated that assuming she was in the vicinity of Howland (which seems likely given the signal strength being strong, then faded.) there is no way she would have had the fuel to reach it. The presentation is some years old, but it's on YT here... ruclips.net/video/T7dg9sqnppA/видео.html

Gillespie is a fraud and wouldn't know good science if it fell on his head. But he's fooled a lot of people.

Tom Devine = Gomer Pyle. Somebody was pulling his leg in classic US military style and he was still falling for it 50 years later.

the plane went down in the ocean north of Howland island.

has anything been said as to why she didn't say her name or name of the island when was on air ? every thing may of been over the heads of plane ole people on a radio back then , just seems i would say my name first off .

Mr Gillespie, you stopped short very much planned to not say why Noonan and Earhart are in a book from 1935. I smell a conspiracy to say the photo was 1935 instead of when they disappeared. What is Noonan and Earhart doing in Jaluit with a Japanese ship in the background towing an aircraft that resembles the Lockheed Electra. Please do us a gigantic favor and stop pretending to solidify your theory of Gardner Island and answer why Noonan, Earhart and the plane are in a photo in Japanese waters in 1935 which show hands down that they are the ones in the picture. I am waiting for your response that you side tracked. hmmmmmmm

This is the best factual information that I have ever seen, and much time spent dispelling myths and disinformation. The title of this video is not misleading, as they don't claim to have all the facts and the final answer. They sure do have a lot of facts. FINALLY, after so many BS videos on this subject, this one is credible and full of solid information. Another thought of mine: if the aircraft lost one of its main gears then one engine would be in the water or muck all the time, while the other would be higher than normal. And that one engine is the generator for running electrical. Losing a main gear might have been a blessing at the time, to allow one engine to be run.

Literally no hard facts and questionable science at best. This is nothing more than his opinion. Facts are that she radioed low fuel with a S5 radio signal quality as said by the radio operator on the Itasca. Meaning she was less than 75 miles from the Itasca. Science and laws of physics prove that with the amount of fuel on board when leaving Lae New Guinea, she only had about 30 minutes of fuel left when making that radio call more than 20 hours into her flight near the Itasca. Gardner Island is over 300 miles away from Howland Island. It is physically impossible her plane made it that distance with 30 minutes of fuel left. She went into the water and people need to grow up and except that her plane will not be found in any of our lifetime. Everything found on Gardner Island can be traced back to the British colony that settled there after her disappearance. That aluminum sheet clearly has the rivet pattern of the Douglas C46 that crashed on the island a few miles away. Ric is clearly and forcibly trying to make unrelated items fit his theories to convince investors to fund his next exploration trip. People can see right thru him. This is why no one wants to fund him anymore.

Lack of hard facts.

Where is the damm plane? If they can get down the marianas treanch today with the new tech then why can't they go down that dropoff on that reef and see if the plane is down there. Nothing on land . Wheres the plane? She landed on bikini atoll kidnapp by the japs.

As a young white male of 21, it sickens me how racist and bigoted my race was back in the day. These men deserve the utmost respect and recognition for their hard work and sacrifice. Thank you to the Tuskegee Airmen for proving that skin color doesn’t mean anything. We are all humans.

Their story is an important part of our country's story. I'm glad the NEAM is working to preserve it, as we lose the last of the Tuskegee Airmen to time.

Was a Kaman Tech Rep in the mid 60s and flew often in the H2. Great Company with great people who taught me all about customer service.

It was removed to fit on the truck flat.

Gorgeous! (The Hun looks pretty tasty too! I gotta catch Dean Cutshall's or Collings Foundation's in the air!) Don't you guys also have an F-89 that you've re-restored not too long ago? I remember reading about one the Squadron's walkaround book that was in New England. If so, any videos of it?

Hopefully this summer! Thanks for tuning in!

Nice when will F-104 be on display?