Amelia Earhart PNG Theory
Rog747:
We will be going in again this year (2010) and I am presently sweating on some funding coming our way for the trip.
No more evidence has turned up, I think we have exhausted the available information, except to say that a correspondent of mine did find a newspaper article from a 1937 U.S. newspaper which stated that "Miss Earhart plans to fly direct from Dakar to Aden...." which is a distance of 4300 miles and the article said over 28 hours of flight time required. Some other newspapers also carried the story.
I have seen an inference to this before in Clarence Williams strip maps and if you divide the distance by the "magic" Flight Planned groundspeed of 150 mph you do get the 28+ Hours required.
In the event she did not do this due to adverse winds but the intent to fly that distance means that the Electra was capable of that distance and also of that endurance, ie; particularly, it was capable of the range.
Regards,
David Billings.