Always wondered why Amelia and Fred didnt go for the 'offset method', as used successfully by Chichester. Go for a point well south and with chronometer and sextant, pick up the north -south/appropriate angle sun line, get an accurate drift as possible and track for the target not so far away. When they missed / couldnt spot Howland /or were not even in visual distance...they had no idea..north or south of ??
Amelia did talk if running on a line ..337-157 was it?..but to and fro where.
There were purportedly other issues, HF freq no. didnt match aerial length no.
Time zones differed, putting call and listen out times to be mismatched.
Batteries for the radio beacon on Howland had been left on overnight and were flat by the morning....
Was the Chronometer off, did the sextant get dropped and damaged...?
And after the greatest aerial search ever.....narry a trace.
So where are you Amelia (and Fred).?