ARLA/CLUSTER: Quem foi Amelia Earhart..?

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

A fotografia que reacendeu as teorias sobre o fim de Amelia Earhart,
heroína da América

Pioneira da aviação, desapareceu em 1937 no Pacífico quando terminava a
circum-navegação aérea da Terra. Imagem de um espião americano revelada em
documentário televisivo volta a pô-la nas ilhas Marshall e sob controlo
japonês.
JOANA AMARAL CARDOSO <https://www.publico.pt/autor/joana-amaral-cardoso>
6 de Julho de 2017, 14:39





https://www.publico.pt/2017/07/06/culturaipsilon/noticia/a-fotografia-que-reacendeu-as-teorias-sobre-o-fim-de-amelia-earhart-heroina-da-america-1778162


<ct1fbf  gmail.com>:

> Busy time for Project Amelia Earhart flyer
>
> The commemorative Amelia Earhart flight by Brian Lloyd WB6RQN reached
> Darwin to enjoy local hospitality and some Territory Day celebration
> events that included a fireworks display.
>
> When the 62 year old Texan landed at Darwin airport on July 1 there
> were so many aircraft there he had to put his single-engine 1979
> Mooney 231 aircraft in the ‘boneyard’ for no longer needed aircraft.
>
> Greeting his arrival in Australia was Stuie VK8NSB, who had been in
> contact with him on the 20 metre band and via a satellite phone while
> he was in the air, having left Bandung Indonesia.
>
> During an earlier news conference in Bandung, Brian WB6RQN told of his
> around the world flight, the achievements Amelia Earhart who
> disappeared in 1937, and how he was looking forward to seeing
> Australia as a tourist.
>
> Stuie VK8NSB found that most of the time he talked about mutual
> interests in radio, flying, and in telling Stuie’s two young children
> of his adventures so far. He hoped to return to Australia later.
>
> “With Brian now part of the family, we headed to the Territory Day
> fireworks at East Point Darwin, had dinner there … spending about two
> hours before heading home.�
>
> Brian WB6RQN was very grateful for the hospitality after his 10 hour
> flight. Spent time answering emails, updating Facebook and other
> Internet requirements, and off to sleep.
>
> As Stuie VK8NSB explains the flyer was cooked a ‘big breaky, bacon and
> eggs with a full spread’, then taken to the Casuarina shopping centre
> for an Australian phone card.
>
> He had planned to fly out of Darwin at lunch time Sunday, with Stuie
> VK8NSB willing to assist in many ways including seeing that the
> aircraft was refuelled.
>
> “I helped him push his plane on to the taxiway, wrote a welcome to
> Australia message and signed the wing, and oh, helped him stick the
> flag of Australia on the plane - each country he goes to he puts the
> sticker on, in order.�
>
> Stuie VK8NSB found the whole experience very rewarding, and putting on
> the Australian flag was a “very cool to be part of that with Brian�.
>
> During the meeting Brian WB6RQN revealed that he “plans to drop a reef
> of flowers when over Howland Island in memory of Amelia Earhart.�
>
> That was where the famed aviator and author Amelia Earhart, and her
> navigator Fred Noonan, vanished July 2, 1937.
>
> He told Stuie VK8NSB it was his belief that both were “safely on the
> beach on remote Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) and attempted to radio for
> help, but ran out of fuel and died�.
>
> After taking off from Darwin on Sunday he was worked on the 20 metre
> band by Mike VK8MA who had him near Katherine on the away to Central
> Australia’s Uluru (Ayres Rock), involving a five hour flight.
>
> Many VKs worked him on this leg. News of the event was well known with
> Facebook chatter, the WIA website, the Sunday morning VK1WIA broadcast
> and in general.
>
> On reaching Uluru, Brian WB6RQN said: “I got some good shots of Ayers
> Rock. Now it's off to Birdsville for a quick lunch and then on to
> Bundaberg.�
>
> The Australian flight plan ends in Sydney where a TV interview was
> planned. After Sydney across the Tasman Sea comes Auckland, then the
> Pacific for Suva, a fly-over of Howland Island which has no runway and
> where a flower reef will be dropped, to Hawaii, then ending the two
> month flight.
>
> Earlier the flight has took him across the Atlantic Ocean from Miami,
> to South America, through Africa, India, South-East Asia, and to
> Australia.
>
> Brian WB6RQN is on 14.210, 14.346, 18.117 or 7.130 using a 125 watt
> transmitter on SSB.
>
> Jim Linton VK3PC
>
>
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