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Re: Amelia Earhart's aerial navigation
From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Nov 19, 10:19 -0800
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From: Ronald P Barrett
Date: 2009 Nov 19, 10:19 -0800
Greg, I taught sea survival for the international airlines and did actual exercises. One can well survive in the central Pacific open ocean in a life jacket for hours to days. Depends on the entry injuries. Therefore I would ask: 1. Did AE have raft? 2. What type? Two man? One man? This relates directly to its size. 3. How was it bundled? The configuration is important. 4. What did it weigh? Important to weight & balance of this size of plane. 5. Was it tied down? 6. How was it tied down? 7. What were the rafts egress points? This is important, because it leads to what window or door could they get it out of. This then begs the question of what was the possible attitude of the plane in the water? If the plane went tail up: I doubt that they could have gotten the aft cabin door open to the point of the raft going out. 8. How was this type of raft to be inflated? 9.Did they have sea-dye? 10.Flares? 11. Did they have life jackets? It is interesting that no floating debree was ever reported//// or was it? I had read the center fuel tank vent scoops were bottom centerline of the plane. Any one ever see tests data on possible water intake upon ditching on these? Sea conditions are a big factor on the out come of a ditching. What exactly were the reported sea conditions at that the possible ditching time? What are the out-comes known of Twin Beech ditchings over the years? Would the empty fuel tanks have rendered the plane "floatable?" As a former Pacific Nav I really do wonder why nothing was found. I find that hard to believe. DR'n away, Ron Barrett, President Air Force Navigators Observers Association (AFNOA www.afnoa.org ) USAF Ret. --- On Thu, 11/19/09, Greg Rudzinski <gregrudzinski@yahoo.com> wrote:
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