How the hell do we know what charts she used if the plane’s at the bottom of the damn ocean
why would they not survive crash landing in the ocean? Didn't they bring any survival gear?
Assuming they survived the crash-landing into the ocean - unlikely - as I understand it, virtually every available space was used for fuel. I've never read that there were life rafts on board...
She is androgynous female so it's something the left will never let go. Kind of like the achievements of Biggie and Tupac. We will never hear the end of any of them.
There is just so much misinformation on here, it's painful how you people need to reach to push your agenda. Amelia Earhart was famous for being a female pilot - she was in no way considered anything other than female. Short hair on women in the the 1930's was common, it was not androgynous, it was sexy. Amelia was also married to a man. Again - at no time while she was alive was she ever portrayed as anything other than being very much female. Do you think when Audrey Hepburn got a bob haircut in the 50's it made her masculine? It's sad so many of you feel so threatened by a woman who's been dead for almost 100 years.
When she took up flying, she cut her hair short in a style that was favored by several other woman pilots of the time...
Incidentally, we keep missing here that the original question is "if she was such a great pilot, why did she crash?" The answer is the crash had nothing to do with her flying skills, it was a failure of navigation.
She and her co-pilot missed Howland Island by an unknown distance. Except for tiny Baker Island (about 70 miles away) there is no other land within more than 300 miles of Howland. Best guess is they simply ran out of fuel. Overconfidence kills many a pilot.
Serious. People call her a trailblazer, but I don’t know. She also had a navigator (a dude) who crashed with her. I never heard of the poor b@stard until today. No one gives a damn about him.
You ever piloted an Aircraft over the ocean? I'd say no therefor you are not qualified to have an opinion on whether or not she should be considered a pioneer.
Of course I’m qualified. I know facts from books and the history. I can have an opinion just like anybody, dude
Really paints a picture of how random and dangerous early aviation was (poor weather prediction, unreliable engines, very poor navigational aids, and so on)
Men never crash aeroplanes. But let's have another woman-bashing thread posted by an historical ignoramus. So many threatened incels on Letsrun.
^ Says the advocate of a leading cause of gendercide.
Armstronglivs - all you talk about is woman-bashing here and Alec Baldwin. Women will never be equal to men until we can bash both equally and not have Libs like you treating them like babies. Enough, Dude
why would they not survive crash landing in the ocean? Didn't they bring any survival gear?
Assuming they survived the crash-landing into the ocean - unlikely - as I understand it, virtually every available space was used for fuel. I've never read that there were life rafts on board...
Couldn't they have tied a couple of life rats to the landing thingies?
I watch ocean sailing and it is even very difficult to get a sailor out of high seas if you know the position and have GPS.
What do you mean you watch it? A TV show maybe?
All I know is the crew of the Essex, a whaling boat that was sank by a vengeful whale, survived a long time just drifting around and eating each other.
The navigator would probably have allowed Earhart to eat him, that was the deal in those days.
I watch ocean sailing and it is even very difficult to get a sailor out of high seas if you know the position and have GPS.
What do you mean you watch it? A TV show maybe?
All I know is the crew of the Essex, a whaling boat that was sank by a vengeful whale, survived a long time just drifting around and eating each other.
The navigator would probably have allowed Earhart to eat him, that was the deal in those days.
Yeah true dat. If she had eaten him and survived, maybe somebody would remember the poor b@stard. Some of the kids on LRC would put him in the Feminist Hall of Remembrance as That Dude Who Sat Down So the Womyns Could Stand Tall.
^ Says the advocate of a leading cause of gendercide.
Armstronglivs - all you talk about is woman-bashing here and Alec Baldwin. Women will never be equal to men until we can bash both equally and not have Libs like you treating them like babies. Enough, Dude
This is a woman-bashing thread but you women-bashers haven't noticed.
All I know is the crew of the Essex, a whaling boat that was sank by a vengeful whale, survived a long time just drifting around and eating each other.
The navigator would probably have allowed Earhart to eat him, that was the deal in those days.
Yeah true dat. If she had eaten him and survived, maybe somebody would remember the poor b@stard. Some of the kids on LRC would put him in the Feminist Hall of Remembrance as That Dude Who Sat Down So the Womyns Could Stand Tall.
When they are talking EA, yes there was instrument flight (gauges that tell you your position relative to the ground when in clouds) in 1937 but it was basic not like airline pilots or even general aviation pilots have at their fingertips today with GPS and WAAS where you just follow the “magenta line” on your Garmin Avionics. if anyone in there is a private pilot and had to do their cross country flights with paper sectionals only you know it’s not as easy to get from point a to point B. First you have to calculate your density altitude that takes into account non standard temperatures height being flown in MSL to calculate something know as density altitude….which is basically for all you altitude training runners how thick the airs is/how much oxygen is available in this instance for fuel combustion. Once have this number, say is 10,O00ft MSL you take your calibrated airspeed, let’s say it's 100knot/hrs you fly ~2 percent faster per 1000ft MSL density altitude increase. So a calibrated airspeed of 100 gives you a true airspeed of 120….but then there is ground speed which is the speed you are traveling over the ground after you account for the wind….if you have a 150 knot headwind (winds increase significantly aloft once no longer being slowed from the surface friction of the earth) you’d be traveling backwards. Then you need to figure out your WCA (wind correction angle) that you need fly off the desired track using high school trigonometry of the speed of the wind and the aisle in is from in reference to your desired heading. After this you’d hope your wind numbers don’t change and watch out the window for pre selected ground reference marks; other the open ocean all of this becomes exponentially more difficult to get right.
Serious. People call her a trailblazer, but I don’t know. She also had a navigator (a dude) who crashed with her. I never heard of the poor b@stard until today. No one gives a damn about him.
It appears that she was caught by the Japanese and killed. I lot of evidence such as pictures point to this.
Are you serious? I knew it. She’s a trailblazer after all. First casualty of World War 2.
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