In response to Far Cu:
That wind figure comes from the TIGHAR Records. The reading was from the US Coast Guard stationed at Howland so I presume the method was by Met Balloon.
I may not agree with a lot of what TIGHAR assumes happened to Earhart and Noonan, but I certainly will give credit for the research carried out by the members of that organisation. Without that extensive research we would be none the wiser on a lot of aspects of the Earhart saga.
The deck logs of the S.S. ONTARIO and the USCG SWAN (the two guard ships) and the USCG ITASCA are contained in the CD that was included with the book written by Gillespie of TIGHAR and from those records came the actual location of the ONTARIO (22 miles out of its' assigned position) and that ONTARIO was headed into a 20 Knot wind from the East at Sea Level at 1030 GMT, around the time of the flyover. If Noonan was referencing that position against the assigned position it affects the navigation.
Last edited by David Billings; 25th Feb 2018 at 06:17.