Amelia Earhart

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:31:11 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

... And might you not also infer that the construction of the
airfield on Howland Island, the assignment of personnel to communicate
her flight, and the use of Navy ships virtually exclusively for her
flight bolsters Mr. Goerner's conclusion that she may have been on a
secret mission for the US government?

The ship assigned to stand guard awaiting her at Howland
was the Coast Guard's Itasca. No other ships were at
her "exclusive" use. When she got lost, the government
mounted the largest search and rescue operation in its
history to that date using mostly Navy ships. They were
not previously part of her flight.

Having said that, of course the commitment of resources
is consistent with Goerner's hypothesis. It is, in my view,
equally consistent with a shrewd politician meeting both
government and personal objectives that have nothing
to do with a "secret mission" for which AE's flight was
singularly ill-suited (takeoff from Lae at 10:00 AM,
arriving over Japanese territory in the dark, etc.).

Marty

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:05:08 -0700, "Jay Beckman"
wrote:

Weren't "picket ships" common "back in the day" as remote comm outlets?

Sort of like light ships but for comm over long open stretches?

I don't know either way.

The Navy used lots of radar pickets in WW II. The Pan Am flights
that were already operating over the Pacific prior to AE's fatal
flight did not use pickets. The bulk of the navigation was done
onboard using standard techniques and the final bearing was
obtained by RDF, I believe. Fred Noonan helped to create
that system and was planning to open his own navigator's
school after the round-the-world flight.

Marty

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:15:59 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

As for the govt assistance, that was standard for the time.

That conflicts with Mr. Goerner's account.

What, that the US military assisted explorers in the 1930s? Look at
the funding and equipment of the various Byrd expeditions.

The military was deeply engaged in American life before WWII. A U.S.
Army team including Dwight Eisenhower crossed the country in the
1910s. U.S. Army pilots flew the mail. The Corps of Engineers built
bridges. The Civilian Conservation Corps was pretty much an army-run
organization. Whole universities were largely army institutions, with
the men wearing uniforms to class.



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Im looking foward to congress passing a bill making it illegal for
government agencies to distrubute media/use public media sources to
sway public opinion away from truthfull matters such as the one we are
seeing with the Amelia Earhart saga. Think of our country like a child
and mother is the earth. The United States is the ******* child that
lies, cheats, steals, no one can trust, no one likes. This child
becomes rich because of it's ruthless means but is eventually pushed
out, isolated from the rest of the family. No one to play with, no one
to trade with. Though it enjoys a short life of luxuary it will
eventually die off because of this loneliness and exile.

"sharkey" wrote in message
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Im looking foward to congress passing a bill making it illegal for
government agencies to distrubute media/use public media sources to
sway public opinion away from truthfull matters such as the one we are
seeing with the Amelia Earhart saga. Think of our country like a child
and mother is the earth. The United States is the ******* child that
lies, cheats, steals, no one can trust, no one likes. This child
becomes rich because of it's ruthless means but is eventually pushed
out, isolated from the rest of the family. No one to play with, no one
to trade with. Though it enjoys a short life of luxuary it will
eventually die off because of this loneliness and exile.


Take an extra one of the little blue ones every day and it should help.

Gig Giacona wrote:
"sharkey" wrote in message
oups.com...
...The United States is the ******* child that
lies, cheats, steals, no one can trust, no one likes. This child
becomes rich because of it's ruthless ...


Take an extra one of the little blue ones every day and it should help.


Careful though... the little blue one might be made by those evil
deamons in a U.S. pharmaceutical company.