POV: Howland Island

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During the CATALYST 2 expedition, the Waitt Institute for Discovery had the rare opportunity to fly Amelia Earhart's route towards Howland Island at the same time of day as her and Fred Noonan's approach. As a result, Waitt Institute founder, Ted Waitt, and helicopter pilot, Tom Sharp, were able to explore Earhart's last flight from her perspective.

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[laurierken]

I've often wondered why they haven't recreated the flight using a reproduced Lockheed Electra 10, carrying the same anount of fuel, flying at the same time of year, fly the same flightpath, and just run the damn plane dry and see where you wind up? Earharts plane should be there.

[PihaSandDunes]

Great video. I never fully realized just how small it is.

[AvengerII]

@AvengerII ... if you don't come in just right you WILL kill yourself on the water -- it's like hitting a brick wall. A better alternative is heading in a direction where you are BOUND to find land.

Officialdom has been real cagey about the Earhart story since 1937. The eyewitness stories from the Marshalls and Saipan have been dismissed a bit too quickly. The lack of evidence for the "official" story argues for closer looks on Saipan and in the National Archives.

[AvengerII]

@AvengerII ... ended up elsewhere.

Contrary to what you're told, there were a ton of people in the late 1930s and World War II era who were fairly certain Earhart did NOT perish in the water or end up on Gardner Island. To begin with, do you honestly think that any pilot with sense flies without an alternate landing spot? IF she missed Howland Island, she was just going to fly around WITHOUT a contingency plan? The last thing most pilots want to do is ditch on the water because...

[AvengerII]

@stphinkle WHO says Earhart and Noonan ended up on Gardner? Ric Gillespie? They haven't found crap on that island that supports their theory!

You really have to read up on this story yourself and begin to understand the official story of Earhart's end just doesn't add up.

a) No floating debris ever found; b) No plane located at the bottom of the sea near Howland Island!

2 companies have searched around Howland Island in the ocean depths and they found jack! That means the plane...

[eon57]

@laurierken Doesn't work like that. For starters, Earhart and Noonan's flightpath SHOULD have taken them to Howland, but they couldn't find the island ... if you plan to fly the same route in a recreated Lockheed, how can you possibly know where/when they went off course, how far they missed the island by, and how/where they flew while searching for it?

[stphinkle]

There is new Evidence that Amelia may have made it to Gardner Island (now Nikumarro) and landed the plane there. She may have then died as a castaway.

[Ms123lovely]

omg i thought people lived there lol



[superpleiadian]

according to google earth howland island is North 0 degrees West 176. So this is like a corner of the earth

[irvykinneas]

this video os awesome

[lismi22]

Sounds like you need St Christopher, St Lucy, St Anthony, and St Joseph on this one :) Good luck with your endeavors :)