Amelia Earhart The Mystery Solved

Amelia Earhart The Mystery Solved

Now a major motion picture starring Hilary Swank.

When Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2nd, 1937, she was flying the longest leg of her around-the-world flight and was only days away from completing her journey. Had she been successful, it would have been the first around-the-world flight by any pilot, male or female.

Her aeroplane was never found, and for more than 60 years rumours have persisted about what happened to her. Was she a spy for the Roosevelt government? Did she crash in Gardner Island, Rabul or Saipan? Did she assume a new identity to become one of the infamous Tokyo rose propaganda girls in the Second World War?

Now, with the recent discovery of long-lost radio messages from Earhart's final flight, the mystery surrounding her disappearance has finally been solved.

Authors Elgen M. and Marie K. Long spent more than 25 years researching the mystery surrounding the Earhart's final flight. They travelled 100,000 miles to interview more than 100 people who knew some part of the Earhart story. Drawing on authoritative sources, Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved takes us inside the cockpit of the Electra plane that Earhart flew in order to recreate the final flight itself. This book brings to life the primitive conditions under which Earhart flew, in an era before radar, with unreliable communications, grass landing strips and poorly mapped islands.

Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved does more than just answer the question of what happened to Amelia Earhart. It reminds us how daring early aviators such as Earhart were as they risked their lives to push the technology for the day to its limits- and beyond.

Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, is currently showing in cinemas.

Elgen M. Long is retired Boeing 747 captain with more than 40,000 hours of worldwide airline flying spanning 50 years as a radioman and navigator, including over 100 U.S Navy combat missions during World War II, and patrols over Howland Island, where Amelia Earhart disappeared. He is the holder of 15 world records and/or firsts, more notably as the first person to fly around the world solo, touching down on seven continents and flying over both the North and South Poles, in 1971. He now lives in Reno, Nevada.

Marie K. Long is a former public relations consultant with the Western Aerospace Museum in Oakland, CA., and wife of Elgen Long, passed away in 2003.

Amelia Earhart The Mystery Solved
Simon and Schuster Australia
Authors: Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long
ISBN: 978139164662
Price: $24.99