Originally Posted by
David Billings
You base distance on HF Signal strength ??? How does that work ?
It is a bunch of BS, the people who heard her estimated her to be no more than 100 miles away based on radio technology at the time. Also you want me believe that they were hundreds of miles short of Howland island - this is like saying that Noonan had no clue what he was doing. So it is a bunch of 'religious' beliefs, trying to navigate around the facts and bending them to make your theory fit. If Ric Gillespie was here who would be arguing that he has all the proofs that they flew to Gardner Island, you really deserve each other. And with this 'easing throttles' you clearly have no clue about flying airplanes, if you ease throttles beyond your max endurance - you actually make situation worse.
Originally Posted by
Cazalet33
By quite a long way too because they were unable to see the very conspicuous smoke signal from Itasca.
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They had no chance seeing this smoke with the typical cloud coverage. You would have to be very, very close to actually see it and then you would probably see the island too.