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Candace Gibson
Until –
Katie Lambert
– until I read about this other theory which is that in 1945 Australian soldiers on the island of New Britain were traipsing through the jungle and they found wreckage of a plane and it was practically overgrown by all of the foliage, it was so dense they could barely get to it but they managed to get a piece of the plane and a map that they found near it which had some numbers on it, 600HP, S3H1, CNT1055 and these numbers actually correspond to the construction, horsepower and number of engines of Earhart’s plane.
Candace Gibson
So, which theory is more convincing?
Katie Lambert
Isn’t that wild? I don’t know. I don’t want to make a judgment. I’m not here to analyze, I’m here to offer the facts.
Candace Gibson
Because we don’t know the answer and that’s the cool thing. There are all these fascinating loose ends that may never actually be solved for us.
Katie Lambert
It’s a historical mystery for sure but it’s also nice to remember Amelia, not just for her disappearance which has certainly spawned a number of salacious conspiracy theories but for the fact that she was a very important figure in the early feminist movements. Her beliefs about women being capable of great fetes and being able to try and accomplish and even do better things that men had done first,
these are still relevant concerns
Candace Gibson
And one of my favorite quotes from her, it’s pretty simple but to me it pretty much sums up Amelia Earhart, is that, “Flying may not be all plane sailing but the fun of it is worth the price,” and she was never walking into any of these flights thinking that it would all be fine. You know, she knew it was dangerous when she undertook that last flight; she knew it was dangerous when she undertook her other flights. She’d even crashed a plane before I believe with Neta Snook but she wanted to do it anyways because it was worth it.
Katie Lambert
To her. Exactly. And I think that’s important advice to live by, for sure. And if you want to learn more about Amelia Earhart and the history of flight be sure to check out the website at howstuffworks.com.
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