America's Greatest Mystery
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By Paul Rafford, Jr. --
25 First Person Accounts of
The World Flight
Of the Noted Aviatrix -- Amelia Earhart
-- It's Why She Disappeared
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By interviewing the men who serviced
Earhart's plane around the world,
a young radio officer learns the
real story of her last flight,
and why she disappeared. |
Amelia Earhart's
Radio
Why She
Disappeared
By Paul Rafford,
Jr.
8.5 x 10.5 Softcover
146 Pages - 140 Illustrations
-- Based upon first person accounts --
25 Interviews from the 1940s
65 years of research
ISBN: 978-1891030-35-2
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This is Douglas
Westfall, and I publish books on America's History. I look for
the treasures of America's History, real treasures found between
the pages of the letters written by Americans. In this book
you'll find 65 year-old interviews by the author. These are from
two dozen men who were there at the 30 stops Amelia Earhart made
around the world, and they tell a much different story. You'll
find these and much more within this book:
Why She Disappeared
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Earhart
waits for the maintenance of her Electra aircraft.
Page 89
How this
book came to be.
I gave a lecture on California Ranchos
in the Los Angeles area in 1997, where I met a man who provided
the letters used in my first book. He had been a member of the
73rd Bomb Wing in WWII, and introduced me to other members of
the 73rd. Later, I published our first book on Amelia Earhart
with a member of the 73rd. The preface for that book was written
by Paul Rafford, Jr., a former Pan Am radio engineer. Over time,
Paul showed me the vast amount of information that he had
collected on Earhart's World Flight which became the foundation
for this publication.
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Earhart and Noonan confer at
Calcutta.
Page 51 |
The interviews, research, and testing
that Paul had done over the past six decades, overwhelmingly
convinced me that he was correct, Earhart had deliberately made
changes to her aircraft, engines, and radio; but why? This book
tells of the exchange of airplanes in Miami, replacement of
engines in Bandoeng, and significant modifications of her radio,
in order to allow her to fly under the radio-network that
existed in 1937.
Rafford built a model of the Electra
and outfitted it with a miniture radio. Using the same antennas
that Earhart had used, he shows how modifications prevented
anyone from tracking her around the world. This alone is
ground-breaking work on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and
Fred Noonan. |
Fueling in Bandoeng,
Indonesia.
Page 59
In Bandoeng for example, special engines
were flown to that airport which replaced those on her Electra 10E.
This was surprising as the engines she had were the most powerful
available for that aircraft at that time.
Amelia Earhart's Around-The-World flight
Earhart and Noonan disappeared in
1937, Paul Rafford, Jr. has proven they did it with
Amelia
Earhart's Radio.
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While most people
wonder what happened to Amelia Earhart, we Pan Am'ers wonder
what happened to one of our greatest navigators. We know very
well, he didn't just get lost. Fred Noonan had flown the Pacific
more times than any other navigator in history and the
navigational demands on Noonan during the world flight, were no
greater than when he navigated the Pacific in the Pan Am Clippers.
Why She Disappeared
-- If you want the
story on how she Disappeared --
You must really get this book.
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By interviewing the men who serviced
Earhart's plane around the world,
a young radio officer learns the
real story of her last flight,
and why she disappeared. |
Amelia Earhart's
Radio
Why She
Disappeared
By Paul Rafford,
Jr.
8.5 x 10.5 Softcover
146 Pages - 140 Illustrations
-- Based upon first person accounts --
25 Interviews from the 1940s
65 years of research
ISBN: 978-1891030-35-2
-- The Complete Ebook is Available --
EBook
Print + EBook
-- Instant Book
Buy * --
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