Jeesh!!!
FN find her already or quit looking! This drama has been going on my whole adult life! OK, well I’m not that adult, but you know what I mean...
Chinese water torture, the media version...
I’ve almost given up hope they’ll ever find her alive.
In aviation circles tighar is a joke and nothing more.They manage to find somebody to put up some money and go hang out in the sunny south pacific.Nice work if you can get it.
What I could never fathom was why they would fly a plane with wheels over thousands of miles of open ocean.
Wouldn`t have common sense dictated to use a float plane instead?
There is no mystery...Her plane crashed and she died.
Search for Amelia Earhart, Fred Goerner, 1966
Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved, Elgin and Marie Long, 2001
The Goerner book offered the theory of a Saipan internment, but never mind that - best part of the book is the author's ancillary account of US Navy life on Saipan in the early 60s during his research -(surreal Spielburgish).
The Elgin Long book is probably the truest book. Long has a very storied career in aviation. Theorizes that AE left New Guinea without full tanks and ran out of gas. Also explains what Noonan's navigation procedure was and gives a most likely area of ditching.
Currently reading Fix on the Rising Sun, Charles Hill , 2000. About the supposed hijacking of PAN AM Hawaill Clipper in '37, by the Japs. Really stretches stuff , but i bought it and have to read it now. Did give some ancillary insight on USMC Earl Ellis that i found interesting and gives some good info on the Mandated Islands that Japan was fortifying.
Conclusion is: quit looking on islands for AE, look in the deep. Funnel remaining research funds to flesh out the last years of LTC., Earl Hancock Ellis USMC Intelligence Officer. Now that would make a great read!