Articles from January 2009



Amelia Earhart

Did Amelia Earhart attempt to return to Rabaul after failing to locate Howland Island? (Some notes from mikefeeney@actrix.co.nz  ) Zillions of words have been written about Amelia and Fred’s last flight; much of it rather ‘imaginative’, to put it delicately.(I do not tell a porky when I say that I found a ‘Star Trek” site [...]

January is ‘prediction’ time on “Flight International” magazine’s website

www.flightglobal.com In the ‘Forum’ section, boring old has-beens, such as myself, are prone to vent their frustration with respect to how some things never seem to change and the lessons of the past do not appear to be absorbed by the newer players in the aviation industry. Of course, that is far from universely true; [...]