NavList:

Hi David

Interesting aside David - alas I am still fully employed at 72 and my asides just don't get time - including giving my WWII aeronautical sextant - which can be used as a ships sextant and an aeronautical one - I just don't get time.

But I read every post on this forum and chaff a bit that I just cannot get more involved - yet.

I am am now a programmer/developer mainly using VB.NET, VC#.Net, MS Access and MS SQL - and still have my trusty HP 42S - and hanker to get my teeth into some astro problems but no time.

Re Princess Earhart (as Antoine calls her - a most appropriate title if I must say) - my blood boils when I hear her pop up in the media and new conspiracists spout a new hypothesis on the disappearance (without any reference to known facts) and expect this new BS to be listened to.

And as David said - because she was Princess Earhart people's ears prick up - but all in all it is just more BS.

Will the aircraft ever be found - maybe - if they look in the right place but from sea level to final resting place in deep, deep water that very, very small aircraft would have drifted a long way and likely now to be all but obliterated by age and time - but they will keep looking as it has a mythical story attached to it and there are rich people out there with the ability to look.

MH 370 - falls into that category - the hypotheses abound - mostly just guesstimates and hope.

BTW - the search for Earhart - because she was famous - was considered the most thorough, the most extensive, the longest maritime search, at that time - and nothing found - interesting in itself - a long range maritime aircraft - a catalina, a sunderland (before their time) would have been useful. 

Regards HHG