Plane Sight – Searching For Amelia Earhart
Editor's Note: This article excerpt originally appeared in The Weekend Australian Magazine. In the autumn of 1945, a troop of young Australian soldiers was trudging through the muddy rainforests of New Britain, an island in the east of what is now Papua New Guinea. In...
Solid Evidence Points to Amelia and Fred Crashing On New Britain Island
Guest Editorial By David Bond There has been a lot of publicity about the fate of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in the media of late. One of these was a two hour documentary on the History Channel concerning a photo purported to show Amelia and Fred on the dock at...
Air Transport Command – Airlift During WWII
by Jack Kinyon, Air Transport Command (ATC) 1942-1947 The Beginning After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the United States was suddenly involved in two major wars. One in the Pacific against Japan and the other in Europe against Germany. Troops...
Is Amelia Earhart’s Electra in Papua New Guinea?
There is very little known about a search project based out of Australia that has been searching for the Amelia Earhart Lockheed Electra aircraft missing since July 1937. Theories about Amelia Earhart abound Although there are a few theories concerning the...
First Across the Atlantic
First Across the Atlantic When we are asked about who was the first pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, the answer usually is Charles Lindbergh. While that is a correct answer, he was not the first to do so. He was the first pilot to navigate across the ocean from New...
Ford Trimotor: World’s First Modern Airliner
Henry Ford continued his quest to revolutionize travel by introducing the world to air travel. The Ford Trimotor became the world's first all-metal airliner. By the end of the Ford Trimotor's commercial career, it had served well over 100 airlines from...