Originally Posted by
Sunfish
It's time of turnaround to range to crash site that seems to me to be important.
If AE transmitted that she was in vicinity of Howland, how long did she spend looking for it before perhaps heading for New Britain? Half an hour? An hour? What fuel consumption while she was searching?
That is the reason behind my iteration spreadsheet pdf which was grossly summarized based on optimal flight in my pdf link above - and is being set up for excel solver use by iterating every 50 or 20 mile increments and allowing range time wind variables. Even without the optimization process, my summary sheet published gives the approx range before turnback to crash site. So far, given a takeoff range of around 3800 miles- subtracting known deviations from straight line and known/estimated range loss due to winds it still comes out around 300 to 600 miles short of howland at time she claimed to be ' overhead ( howland? ) - but more work needs be done.