<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-headline gmail-story__headline" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:41px;margin:0px 0px 0.5rem;padding:0px;font-family:publico-bold,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);line-height:48px;max-width:91.6667%;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)">A fotografia que reacendeu as teorias sobre o fim de Amelia Earhart, heroína da América</h1><div class="gmail-story__blurb gmail-lead" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:28px;font-family:publico-medium,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);font-weight:700;max-width:83.3333%;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:inherit;margin-left:0px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">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.</p></div><div class="gmail-story__meta" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0.5rem 0px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(10,10,10);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"><div class="gmail-byline-dateline" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;min-height:56px;float:left"><div class="gmail-byline" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline"><address class="gmail-byline__author" style="box-sizing:inherit;display:inline;font-style:normal;color:rgb(138,138,138);font-size:0.875rem"><a rel="author" href="https://www.publico.pt/autor/joana-amaral-cardoso" title="Mais artigos de Joana Amaral Cardoso" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(85,85,85);text-decoration-line:none;line-height:inherit"><span class="gmail-byline__name" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;margin-top:16px;display:inline-block">JOANA AMARAL CARDOSO</span></a> </address></div><time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:39:09 GMT" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:0.875rem;color:rgb(138,138,138)">6 de Julho de 2017, 14:39</time></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><a href="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">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</a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ct1fbf@gmail.com" target="_blank">ct1fbf@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Busy time for Project Amelia Earhart flyer<br>
<br>
The commemorative Amelia Earhart flight by Brian Lloyd WB6RQN reached<br>
Darwin to enjoy local hospitality and some Territory Day celebration<br>
events that included a fireworks display.<br>
<br>
When the 62 year old Texan landed at Darwin airport on July 1 there<br>
were so many aircraft there he had to put his single-engine 1979<br>
Mooney 231 aircraft in the ‘boneyard’ for no longer needed aircraft.<br>
<br>
Greeting his arrival in Australia was Stuie VK8NSB, who had been in<br>
contact with him on the 20 metre band and via a satellite phone while<br>
he was in the air, having left Bandung Indonesia.<br>
<br>
During an earlier news conference in Bandung, Brian WB6RQN told of his<br>
around the world flight, the achievements Amelia Earhart who<br>
disappeared in 1937, and how he was looking forward to seeing<br>
Australia as a tourist.<br>
<br>
Stuie VK8NSB found that most of the time he talked about mutual<br>
interests in radio, flying, and in telling Stuie’s two young children<br>
of his adventures so far. He hoped to return to Australia later.<br>
<br>
“With Brian now part of the family, we headed to the Territory Day<br>
fireworks at East Point Darwin, had dinner there … spending about two<br>
hours before heading home.”<br>
<br>
Brian WB6RQN was very grateful for the hospitality after his 10 hour<br>
flight. Spent time answering emails, updating Facebook and other<br>
Internet requirements, and off to sleep.<br>
<br>
As Stuie VK8NSB explains the flyer was cooked a ‘big breaky, bacon and<br>
eggs with a full spread’, then taken to the Casuarina shopping centre<br>
for an Australian phone card.<br>
<br>
He had planned to fly out of Darwin at lunch time Sunday, with Stuie<br>
VK8NSB willing to assist in many ways including seeing that the<br>
aircraft was refuelled.<br>
<br>
“I helped him push his plane on to the taxiway, wrote a welcome to<br>
Australia message and signed the wing, and oh, helped him stick the<br>
flag of Australia on the plane - each country he goes to he puts the<br>
sticker on, in order.”<br>
<br>
Stuie VK8NSB found the whole experience very rewarding, and putting on<br>
the Australian flag was a “very cool to be part of that with Brian”.<br>
<br>
During the meeting Brian WB6RQN revealed that he “plans to drop a reef<br>
of flowers when over Howland Island in memory of Amelia Earhart.”<br>
<br>
That was where the famed aviator and author Amelia Earhart, and her<br>
navigator Fred Noonan, vanished July 2, 1937.<br>
<br>
He told Stuie VK8NSB it was his belief that both were “safely on the<br>
beach on remote Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) and attempted to radio for<br>
help, but ran out of fuel and died”.<br>
<br>
After taking off from Darwin on Sunday he was worked on the 20 metre<br>
band by Mike VK8MA who had him near Katherine on the away to Central<br>
Australia’s Uluru (Ayres Rock), involving a five hour flight.<br>
<br>
Many VKs worked him on this leg. News of the event was well known with<br>
Facebook chatter, the WIA website, the Sunday morning VK1WIA broadcast<br>
and in general.<br>
<br>
On reaching Uluru, Brian WB6RQN said: “I got some good shots of Ayers<br>
Rock. Now it's off to Birdsville for a quick lunch and then on to<br>
Bundaberg.”<br>
<br>
The Australian flight plan ends in Sydney where a TV interview was<br>
planned. After Sydney across the Tasman Sea comes Auckland, then the<br>
Pacific for Suva, a fly-over of Howland Island which has no runway and<br>
where a flower reef will be dropped, to Hawaii, then ending the two<br>
month flight.<br>
<br>
Earlier the flight has took him across the Atlantic Ocean from Miami,<br>
to South America, through Africa, India, South-East Asia, and to<br>
Australia.<br>
<br>
Brian WB6RQN is on 14.210, 14.346, 18.117 or 7.130 using a 125 watt<br>
transmitter on SSB.<br>
<br>
Jim Linton VK3PC<br>
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