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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:08 pm 
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"We don't want to oversell this"

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/ ... ne-debris/


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 1:58 pm 
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They keep forgeting there was a shipwreck on the island don't they...

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:06 pm 
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JFS61 wrote:
"We don't want to oversell this"

They don't WANT to oversell it, but they most certainly will. :lol:
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:00 pm 
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I just saw that.... THRILLED.... I'm betting her plane wil be on the airshow circuit next year..... Can't wait....

Also they found a jar that had her FRECKLE CREAM IN IT!!!!! (or remains there of)..... It must be it.


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:13 pm 
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Uh... that's not freckle cream... huh huh huh. </beavis> :rofl:


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:09 am 
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JFS61 wrote:
"We don't want to oversell this"



Why stop now?
Is it possible that the American public is getting less gullible?

Nah....

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:13 am 
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I'd have to say with the internet, the public is WAY more gullible than ever.


If PT BARNUM could only see the world now, He'd be a REALLY rich man.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:52 am 
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P51Mstg wrote:
I'd have to say with the internet, the public is WAY more gullible than ever.


If PT BARNUM could only see the world now, He'd be a REALLY rich man.


Mark H


Contrary to much that we have been taught about PT Barnum, the man had a higher code of honor than one would think. He despised the flim-flam and thought that the public deserved value for their money. He would be offended by TIGHAR.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:48 pm 
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Clifford Bossie wrote:
He would be offended by TIGHAR.



Bernie Madoff would be offended by TIGHAR.
So would the proaganda ministers of most dictatorships, third world nations with the word "People's" in their title and most partisan political hacks from big city machines. :wink:

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:23 am 
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Can't be Earhart's plane. I saw her at the mall with Tupac, Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa the other day.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:36 am 
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Now that the TIGHAR Hype and Salesmanship seems to have accumulated some amount of derision....

Would I be at least hopeful that someone or some persons with a dash of adventure would help our little project with the evidence it has: "help us out here."

I have been battling to find an all metal twin-engined aircraft wreck on New Britain Island for eighteen years now and the evidence of whose aircraft it is, is very strong, by all the evidence it is the Electra. It certainly has P & W R1340 S3H1 engines and there wern't any used there in WWII. All that 18 years of periodic visits we have been self-funding with minimal help from America, it's about time you did help us.

I plan to go again this year in the light of some new information which came my way last year while I was in the search area and will be taking two metal detectors as the area is now narrowed right down. We now definitely know that it is buried and I have located a very likely area of about two, maybe three acres in area. This wreck matching the Electra was seen in the jungle in 1945 by Australian diggers on a patrol. We have some documentary evidence which also matches. It's all on my website (see below).

I need about 25K, any takers ?.... She's your heroine and your Navigator. We've already spent about 160K on this and are financially exhausted. We need your help... Contributions can be made direct to me or my lady agent in L.A. or, on www.indiegogo.com, just search under Earhart.

We don't hype, BS, or say we have something when we do not, we just go about it quietly and put boots on the ground.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 12:24 pm 
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David Billings wrote:
Now that the TIGHAR Hype and Salesmanship seems to have accumulated some amount of derision....

Would I be at least hopeful that someone or some persons with a dash of adventure would help our little project with the evidence it has: "help us out here."

I have been battling to find an all metal twin-engined aircraft wreck on New Britain Island for eighteen years now and the evidence of whose aircraft it is, is very strong, by all the evidence it is the Electra. It certainly has P & W R1340 S3H1 engines and there wern't any used there in WWII. All that 18 years of periodic visits we have been self-funding with minimal help from America, it's about time you did help us.

I plan to go again this year in the light of some new information which came my way last year while I was in the search area and will be taking two metal detectors as the area is now narrowed right down. We now definitely know that it is buried and I have located a very likely area of about two, maybe three acres in area. This wreck matching the Electra was seen in the jungle in 1945 by Australian diggers on a patrol. We have some documentary evidence which also matches. It's all on my website (see below).

I need about 25K, any takers ?.... She's your heroine and your Navigator. We've already spent about 160K on this and are financially exhausted. We need your help... Contributions can be made direct to me or my lady agent in L.A. or, on http://www.indiegogo.com, just search under Earhart.

We don't hype, BS, or say we have something when we do not, we just go about it quietly and put boots on the ground.


David Billings
http://www.electranewbritain.com


Post a donation link here or start a new topic on the main page and im sure we would all love to help out. If you do find the airplane, what will you do with the wreckage/body's?

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 1:16 pm 
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David, what makes you certain the wreck is now buried?


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:21 pm 
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Amelia Earhart Discovery? Evidence of Downed Plane Discovered in the Pacific
By Samantha Grossman | @sam_grossman | August 20, 2012

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/20/ame ... z248wYIoYv


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