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Are you involved with the Clive Cussler group or are they "competitors"?

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Pardon my ignorance, but....White Bird??? Would somebody be kind enuf to 'splain that to me?
Ah' 'preciates it.

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Wasn't there suppose to be some B-29s thought to still at China Lake. Also are there sany aircraft remaining at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in MD.
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"White Whale" analogy?
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You're all wrong!

Weekly World News just reported finding the Bermuda Triangle Avengers underwater on one of Saturn's moons.

So what do I win!?! :o


And for Mudge...

The "White Bird" of which they speak involves the continued search for the remains of Nungesser & Coli's attempt at beating Lucky Lindy across the Atlantic. My guess is that the investigative crew from Weekly World News will find it first! :P

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Thanks Dan, "White Bird" rang a bell somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind, (where I, purposely, rarely go because it's scary) but I just couldn't make the connection to Nungesser & Coli.

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Col. Rohr wrote:
No I'm not part of Clive's group

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Oh come on, that beard - methinks Rob and Mr Clusser are one and the same :lol:
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Dan K wrote:
The "White Bird" of which they speak involves the continued search for the remains of Nungesser & Coli's attempt at beating Lucky Lindy across the Atlantic.

I thought Alcock & Brown already did that 8 years previously? :wink:
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Alcock & Brown non-stop France to US? You must be a revisionist.

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I'm hoping it will be me finding the elusive SC1/2.
(Just got my SeaHawk book! Thanks Mike G!)

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Finding and going to the T28 yard in Nevada (Infinately more doable, hopefully sometime this year).

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What about the B-32 that's up on the moon ? Hey ! I saw the pictures ! :lol:
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RickH, I managed to convince the B-32 owner to sell it to me a few years back. I am still saving up for shipping. NASA is very harsh when it comes to importing stuff from up there...
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Mike wrote:
Dan K wrote:
The "White Bird" of which they speak involves the continued search for the remains of Nungesser & Coli's attempt at beating Lucky Lindy across the Atlantic.

I thought Alcock & Brown already did that 8 years previously? :wink:

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Alcock & Brown non-stop France to US? You must be a revisionist.

Sorry Dan, where in the previous post did it mention "non-stop France to US?"

The only record mentioned was attempting to beat Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing. I was merely pointing out the often-overlooked fact that 91 people had actually flown across the Atlantic before Lindbergh.
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Sorry Dan, where in the previous post did it mention "non-stop France to US?"

I didn't mention it in my previous post. I assumed that most who lurk here understood what Nungesser, Coli, Lindbergh, and others were all trying to accomplish in 1927. My bad.

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their has been alot of new earhart speculation whithin the last year by respectable research sources with the resources. no tighar b.s. etc. this group has done serious homework, & has the $$$$. they have not done any grandstand p.r. squawking, or horn tooting, on the contrary, they've been mum & responsible up to now.

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