Amelia Earhart

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FOR . MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS
PEOfLjE HAVE WONDERED WHAT HAPPIeNED TO AMELIA EARHART. HERE AT LAST IS THE ANSWER.
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In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific Ocean only days from completing her famous around-the-world flight. Her plane was never found. Now, with the discovery of long-lost radio messages, combined with authors Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long's twenty-five years of research, the mystery surrounding Earhart has been solved. Amelia Earhart: Ike Mystery Solved simultaneously reveals their findings and brings to life the primitive conditions under which earlier aviators flew—including lack of radar, unreliable communications, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands—reminding us just how daring Earhart was.
"May I suggest that you quickly find this book in your favorite bookstore or library, sit in a comfortable chair and live through those final days and last hours of Earhart's fateful flight? Only then can you fully appreciate the remarkable... Tovább

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FOR . MORE THAN SEVENTY YEARS
PEOfLjE HAVE WONDERED WHAT HAPPIeNED TO AMELIA EARHART. HERE AT LAST IS THE ANSWER.
K

In 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared into the Pacific Ocean only days from completing her famous around-the-world flight. Her plane was never found. Now, with the discovery of long-lost radio messages, combined with authors Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long's twenty-five years of research, the mystery surrounding Earhart has been solved. Amelia Earhart: Ike Mystery Solved simultaneously reveals their findings and brings to life the primitive conditions under which earlier aviators flew—including lack of radar, unreliable communications, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands—reminding us just how daring Earhart was.
"May I suggest that you quickly find this book in your favorite bookstore or library, sit in a comfortable chair and live through those final days and last hours of Earhart's fateful flight? Only then can you fully appreciate the remarkable research and writing of the Longs." — MILTON R. SHILS, the philadelphia inquirer
"For those interested in learning all there is to know about Amelia Earhart's
final flight, [the Longs] have done a remarkably thorough job ofpulling it together." — KEVIN O'BRIEN, the plain dealer
ELGEN M. LONG is the only person to have flown solo around the world over both poles. His career includes 40,000 hours of worldwide flying in everything from 1930s Boeing 314 seaplanes to Boeing 747s. During World War II, Navy patrol flights in the Pacific often took him over Howland Island, Earhart's destination on her final flight. Mr. Long lives in Reno, Nevada.
MARIE K. LONG was a former public relations consultant who helped to establish the Western Aerospace Museum (now the Oakland Aviation Museum) in Oakland, California, and wife of Elgen Long. She passed away in 2003. Vissza