This time they'll find her, TIGHAR strikes again

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:42 pm

This seems to be the "the picture" (I also remember that it was shown in a documentary that aired last year):

http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Arch ... nSight.htm

ZeamerB17 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:47 pm

There's some concrete evidence. :roll:

TAdan · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:03 pm

Oh that? That's just Nessie on a Pacific vacation.

I'm sure the object must have nothing to do with that sunken ship near by. :shock:

Baldeagle · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:34 pm

David Billings wrote:

Baldeagle says: "This time they'll find her" - I'll take bets on that, it will help my funding efforts.....

I think you missed the sarcasm part.....

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Wildchild · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:15 pm

David Billings wrote:

Baldeagle says:

"This time they'll find her" - I'll take bets on that, it will help my funding efforts.....

The Inspector says:

....time for another South Sea holiday.... "Yes !"

trojandl says:

...at least someone is still looking for her... That's correct Troj. I have been looking for AE & FN off and on for 18 years using the best evidence anyone has in the world.....but somehow, our efforts go largely unnoticed and we are certainly not in line to receive any funding from the U.S. Government, although we should be with what we have.

The photo of the supposed Landing Gear fork ? - In a word, "Coral".

Read all about our effort on New Britain Island ? See: http://www.electranewbritain.com

Regards,

David Billings
davidb236@aol.com

My father just read you website, and now he is too convinced that TIGHAR is full of BS, but would like to throw an idea at you...

Use a Magnometer from a airplane flying over New Britian, pinpoint the locations that come up, and go investigete which one you think is the closest to the last known loaction. You could have walked over the airplane 10 times and never know it was there.

JohnB · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:09 am

I'm pretty sure this is a ploy to have Earhart support Obama in the upcoming election.
She'll be so grateful to be rescued, she'll campaign for him.

JohnB · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:09 am

I'm pretty sure this is a ploy to have Earhart support Obama in the upcoming election.
She'll be so grateful to be rescued, she'll campaign for him.

Dave Homewood · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:44 am

This story has just featured on the national news here in New Zealand, so their publicity department is in full swing!

With all the searches over the years for Earhart and her aeroplane I have always wondered - what is the point?

What are these people actually trying to achieve? Even if they find skeletal remains of the bodies or twisted, rusted, coral encrusted wreckage of the Lockheed, who the hell cares? It will be near impossible to establish what happened even of the wreckage is found, especially if it's under the sea as they're suggesting with this photo.

And the victims will still be dead. Their mission to fly round the world will still be a failure. Nothing new is really going to be achieved.

Although fully funded holidays to the tropics would be nice, and I guess they hope they'll be paid big by newspapers and National Geographic if they do find something, and maybe a parade and a ceremony on the Whitehouse Lawn. Still seems a pointless waste of money. They could have achieved much more for the legacy of these two aviators by restoring a Lockheed to look the same and fly it around the airshow circuit to educate younger people about the pioneers of flight.

As for that photo, I think it could easily be a native standing in a canoe that is end-on to the photographer.

ZeamerB17 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:56 am

Dave Homewood wrote:

This story has just featured on the national news here in New Zealand, so their publicity department is in full swing!

With all the searches over the years for Earhart and her aeroplane I have always wondered - what is the point?

What are these people actually trying to achieve? Even if they find skeletal remains of the bodies or twisted, rusted, coral encrusted wreckage of the Lockheed, who the heck cares? It will be near impossible to establish what happened even of the wreckage is found, especially if it's under the sea as they're suggesting with this photo.

And the victims will still be dead. Their mission to fly round the world will still be a failure. Nothing new is really going to be achieved.

Although fully funded holidays to the tropics would be nice, and I guess they hope they'll be paid big by newspapers and National Geographic if they do find something, and maybe a parade and a ceremony on the Whitehouse Lawn. Still seems a pointless waste of money. They could have achieved much more for the legacy of these two aviators by restoring a Lockheed to look the same and fly it around the airshow circuit to educate younger people about the pioneers of flight.

As for that photo, I think it could easily be a native standing in a canoe that is end-on to the photographer.

Closure? The resolution of one of the biggest, most speculated/written about mysteries of the 20th century?

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

ZeamerB17 wrote:

Closure? The resolution of one of the biggest, most speculated/written about mysteries of the 20th century?

One of the 100s of thousands of things that do not keep me awake at night, is what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Closure? Really? Are we so whipped by the psychological bs going around, that we need "closure" on this?

Closure would be meaningful when we are talking about POW / MIAs, IMHO.

But, as P.T. Barnum said, there is a sucker born every minute, and they are of course, free to do with their money, as they please.

As for yours truly, my money goes to support what I deem to be nobler and more important things.

Just my two centavos on this.

Saludos,

Tulio

ZeamerB17 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:04 am

Tulio wrote:

ZeamerB17 wrote:

Closure? The resolution of one of the biggest, most speculated/written about mysteries of the 20th century?

One of the 100s of thousands of things that do not keep me awake at night, is what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Closure? Really? Are we so whipped by the psychological bs going around, that we need "closure" on this?

Good lord. :roll:

I've always been curious what really happened; never lost a wink of sleep wondering about it, though.

Maybe "resolution" would have been a better word than "closure." *sigh* As for the "psychological bs" I couldn't care less about it - or your opinion, for that matter. Internet forums are becoming really tedious.

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 990

"The Picture" looks like a brunette in a black tank top and white shorts.

Chappie

Dan K · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:55 am

Chappie wrote:

"The Picture" looks like a brunette in a black tank top and white shorts.

Chappie

Forget Amelia!

Chappie's found Gilligan's Island! :drink3:

The Inspector · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:35 am

Dan K wrote:

Chappie wrote:

"The Picture" looks like a brunette in a black tank top and white shorts.

Chappie

Forget Amelia!

Chappie's found Gilligan's Island! :drink3:

Hurry will ya!?! Ginger just turned 79 a couple of months ago :shock:

David Billings · **Joined:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:56 pm **Posts:** 207

For Baldeagle....

Ooooh-Nooo, I caught the sarcasm and attepted to throw in some of my own.
I am well known for being a critic of the Gillespie "Shell Game"....
I'll still take bets if anybody is game, as I say: it would boost my coffers.

Wildchild....

Magnetometer..... Good idea but costs a few 'brazilian' as Dubya would say... Way out of my budget. Also, against that idea, a very experienced aerial Magnetometer expert did tell me I would be wasting my time with the commercial equipment available at this present day. I did take a portable Magnetometer in last year and got several hits in very likely places. However several hits does not fit as we know the wreck is in two pieces. I now believe the hill is loaded with iron ore which kind of nullifies a Magnetometer.

I hope your Dad liked what he read....

We now know that the wreck seen in 1945 is buried. I plan, therefore, to take in a super-duper metal detector the next time around. As I still work at 72, and am very busy this year, it may be in late July, or August time, or it may not depending on workload. So, workload, funding, team availability and time to do it, are the variables involved.

David Billings
www.electranewbritain.com

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