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Old 16th Feb 2018, 04:10
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David Billings
 
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She only had an hour left...

Greg47 says: "She had a maximum of an hour when she commenced her search along the nth south line."

To be able to say specifically that the Electra had a maximum of one hour fuel left under the circumstance quoted above, Greg47 must have done fuel work participate to the usage by Earhart as the manager of the engines. Other researchers say she had four hours of fuel remaining after the line search was completed , which completion, we do assume was at 2014 GMT.

I am not going to ask Greg47 how he came to that conclusion for no doubt he will not answer.

It is a little indeterminate exactly how much fuel the Electra did carry for most state "1100 US Gallons" and to add to that we have Robert Iredale in Lae who supplied the fuel saying he topped off all tanks before they left, meaning there would be 1151 USG total on engines start. Even that 40 gallons after the ground usage in taxying would add another hour at Cruise Power to Greg47's one hour.

Was 2014 GMT the last Tx made by Earhart ? I think it unlikely and Itasca going frantic on the radio may have blocked her short transmissions but as written in the website, Fred Goerner wrote in his book of a US Navy signal where a call was heard by Nauru which can be timed at 2200 GMT of: "Land in sight ahead", which would fit very nicely with a sighting of The Gilberts or one of the two islands before The Gilberts on activating her Contingency Plan. That would mean 2.5 Hours after 1912 GMT., on Greg47's figuring...

Getting back to the aircraft type.... if the wreck was not the Electra. Can anyone suggest an aircraft which would fit the bill... Any aircraft with P&W engines can be called out as the culprit and we will deal with each one.

The weirdest aircraft that has been mentioned so far (a few years ago) was the German Dornier Do17 (the fabled "Flying Pencil")....that, by an ex-Colonel of the USAF, no less. Can anyone find a weirder and more eligible aircraft than that ?

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