Earhart was on Mili Island? Wing Cameras on Electra?
7/24/12
This was sent to us by Phil Van Zandt, a guest blogger. He and Woody Rogers are avid Earhart fans and respected historians.
You might like this, if you have not already heard from "Woody"
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1935 Packard Built for Amelia Earhart on Display
Otago Daily Times
October 29, 2017
The 1935 Packard Super 8 coupe is being brought to Wanaka by its Australian owners Ross and Robyn Marshall and will join at least 10 Packards from the United States and others from around Read more [...]
Amelia Earhart’s Watch Goes to Auction!
11/2/17
Paul Newman isn’t the only American icon who has his timepiece come up for auction, as on December 7th Christie’s will offer Joe DiMaggio’s Patek Philippe reference 130 and Amelia Earhart’s Tiffany & Co travel watch.
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TRAGEDY OF ERRORS
Fred and I have been reading accounts about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan since we were kids. We have, like so many others, formed many opinions about what transpired on July 2nd 1937 in the Central Pacific. First there Read more [...]
An Airplane on Gardner Island?
It seems that Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for TIGHAR is to put out a press release touting their new find first, and then start an investigation. Not surprisingly many of their press releases have been proven wrong; many of their assumptions Read more [...]
Earhart Mystery Briefcase Still Unfolding-Saipan 1944
On 5/11/12 we spoke to Ed T. Jones, now 85, who lives in Florida. He was a close friend and WWII buddy of Bob Wallack. Bob, now deceased, was a U.S. Marine machine-gunner in Saipan. He was the person who, in Jones’ own words, Read more [...]
Earhart’s Personal Camera & Luggage Labels
by Filo Vance
Amelia’s cameras 'talked' to me...
The initial Kodak 620 Duo camera came to me under rather strange circumstances. Let’s just say that what I have since learned makes me believe it to be the one which was supposedly Read more [...]
WE DISAGREE WITH TIGHAR’S EARHART THEORIES
This is a copy of a memo we e-mailed to folks on our mailing list.
1-10-14
WE DISAGREE WITH TIGHAR’s EARHART THEORIES
BY ROBERT WHEELER AND FRED NICELY
We are writing to you because you have shown an interest in our research in the past. Read more [...]
Filo Vance on Earhart’s Camera & Disappearance
10/23/13 Contributed by Filo Vance
Personally I doubt it was AE & Noonan on Niku, nor that sonar scan is of an aluminum-skinned wing 1,000 feet below (I've seen aluminum cans disappears in less than 10-years on a tropical bottom and Read more [...]
Earhart’s Freckle Cream Does a Vanishing Act
Yet another “hot lead” by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has fizzled under the bright light of logic based research. To TIGHAR’S credit, much of the undoing of the “2012 Dr. Berry’s Freckle Ointment Read more [...]