Amelia Earhart radio transmissions
There were very few (if any) tricycle gear large aircraft in existence in the late 1930s. However it's unlikely many cinema goers would be upset by this minor anachronistic imperfection.
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Slight tread drift... A couple of Shute's novels include radio comms, both the aeronautical variety and the outback version. He manages to avoid mentioning aircraft call signs in most of his books that deal with aviation, but when a call sign does get mentioned it is usually in the 1942-1955 RAF phonetic alphabet. Same for the outback communications if I'm not mistaken. So Queen Nan How may well have turned up in one of his books. His own Percival Proctor V that was used for his UK-Australia flight was known as 'Item Willie" (G-AKIW).
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I watched the movie Amelia early last year on Disney.
Monitoring the background on scenes which were meant to depict Miami - there appears to be an Antonov An-24 or 26 behind the front action.
Part of the movie was filmed in South Africa - would an Antonov have been seen there regularly?
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Monitoring the background on scenes which were meant to depict Miami - there appears to be an Antonov An-24 or 26 behind the front action.
Part of the movie was filmed in South Africa - would an Antonov have been seen there regularly?
See what you think...
I remember that some scenes were shot at Rand Airport. There were 2 ZS registered AN32's there that I recall (have not been there in 12 years or so)
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What puzzles me is how any transmission could have been made hours after an aircraft ditched in the sea, or even if it crashed/crashlanded on an atoll (in which case it would have been found).
Earhart was hardly a technical person, quite the opposite in fact and by all accounts had very little understanding of radio, let alone tech ability at salvaging and jury-rigging crashed or salt-water soaked ones, an all but impossible task for anyone no matter how expert.
I've been reading that according to photographic evidence the underbelly antenna was probably lost during taxi and takeoff from Lae. How has this been factored into the theoreys? Surely no antenna means no comms at all?
Earhart was hardly a technical person, quite the opposite in fact and by all accounts had very little understanding of radio, let alone tech ability at salvaging and jury-rigging crashed or salt-water soaked ones, an all but impossible task for anyone no matter how expert.
I've been reading that according to photographic evidence the underbelly antenna was probably lost during taxi and takeoff from Lae. How has this been factored into the theoreys? Surely no antenna means no comms at all?
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This would explain why she was clearly able to transmit, but never seemed to acknowledge receiving any transmissions for her.
Interesting. I have always know that prosign as SK. If you know morse you'll see it is the same as a prosign runs the letters together.
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