Talk:Amelia Earhart

Is a flight from Honolulu to California truly a flight across the Pacific Ocean?

Well, what would you call that body of water separating them, which you have to cross to get from one to the other? - Montréalais

Seems to me the question was not about the name of the body of water, but about the use of the preposition "across". Maybe a flight that is not "across" something (meaning spanning it from edge to edge) could still be "over" it if it traverses some part of it. Is this helpful? JackofOz 05:24, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Well, the page refers to the "first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to Oakland, California" - restrictive clause, i.e. the first person to fly that route, not the first person to traverse the whole Pacific. - Montréalais 05:32, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Maybe modify it to "across the eastern Pacific Ocean" to be precise. --Menchi (Talk)â 05:49, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I deleted the bit about AE possibly, unwittingly mis-navigating by 100 miles to the north: Firstly, Noonan was the navigator and the possibility of his making that sort of uncorrected error was way low, and secondly it's unsupported by any hard evidence. - Wyss

I deleted the following:

" Earhart probably didn't know that Noonan was an alcoholic; incredibly, she didn't know how to operate a radio or Morse Code -- factors which may have played a role in what was to happen."

There is no evidence Noonan was an alcoholic, certainly no evidence that alcohol consumption ever intefered with his performance as a professional navigator.

Earhart knew how to operate a radio. However, she had extremely limited ability to send or read Morse Code.

- Wyss