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HowardG you wrote in:  Re: ADMIN: The temptation of the NavList message archives 2022 Feb 20, 15:13 -0800. I did make a comment a few weeks ago on Amelia Earharts disappaerance and commented that I now wanted to read a very good factual account of Amelia's round the world trip ....................

Researching the Noonan/ Earhart eastbound pacific flight can become addictive.  There’s lots to read.  One chain is to go back to the planning stage and ask why on earth Earhart was required to choose such a tiny, low-lying island to refuel in the first place.  Kingsford Smith flying westwards chose Hawaii and Fiji.  Chichester flying from NZ to Australia had to choose small islands, but they both had considerable vertical extent.  Wiley Post and Harold Gatty flying eastabout chose the Bering Sea.  Eckener in the Graf Zeppelin had the airship’s much greater flexibility to utilise.  There are some interesting suggestions here from ‘Dr Google’.  DaveP