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This Gannett aircraft is an L-10 or an L-12 Lockheed Electra, similar to the one that famed Amelia Earhart flew in her fatal attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean. (The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Lexington's navigation chart plotted while searching for her is on another page of this websit...
In terms of the lightning, this is a subject area for which some good pilot reports from the other planes that made it safely cross the ITCZ on that night would be a great addition to the meteorological discussion -- and to our understanding of the conditions that they all faced, and app...
[CrossRef] Kreyer, J.O.; Müller, M.; Esch, T.A. Map-Based Model for the Determination of Fuel Consumption for Internal Combustion Engines as a Function of Flight Altitude. In Proceedings of the Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress, Darmstadt, Germany, 30 September–2 October 2019. [...