After decades of searching and probing about the Amelia Earhart enigma, the unfolding of the mystery will be shown in the silver screen. However, Allied Artists, Inc. is in need of such funds and participants to do so. Quoted below is a part of the Project Proposal for the said film dedicated to Amelia Earheart and to those unveiled the mysterious loss.

“After four years of writing and rewriting, The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart is ready for development.  We believe we have a captivating screenplay that will inspire and at the same time tell the true story of one of America’s pioneers of the sky.  It is gripping and fascinating and brings to life a legend of one of the most famous women in the world.  We invite you to join us and be a part of bringing this project to the silver screen.

Professionals in the financial sector as well as the individual investor can no longer afford to stay distant from the entertainment sector, especially if one can be involved in an intelligent, targeted, and secure area of the entertainment business.  To some extent, the incredible growth and reach of entertainment is due to the fact that new and rapidly transforming technologies have led to alternative forms of communication, media and electronic delivery around the world.”

 

                                                                                                            -Allied Artists, Inc.

 A snippet of the soon to be film had captured most of my interest and my attention that is meant to be shared. Speculations has it that Earhart’s flight was a spy mission, but impossible because the airplane flew a direct route without detours. Though after the disappearance, Roosevelt ordered a search of the Marshall Islands but the search failed to turn up information and was stopped by the Japanese. It had been assumed that Amelia Earhart had “crashed and sank” in the Central Pacific. However, the search pointed to that belief but the loss of transmission received from a radio operator at Nauru Island is valid and substantiates that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan did not crash at sea.  

A story was picked up by Fred Goerner, a radio operator for CBS news in San Francisco and tracked it down. Coming from a woman, Josephine Blanco Akiyama, claims she saw two American flyers in the island of Saipan in 1937 when she was eleven. At first Akiyama thought that they were both men but someone told her that there was a woman. Also, she claims that they are Americans from what the Japanese guard had said and took the pair away so at it was rumored that they were executed by the Japanese.

Mysterious initials were found in a prison cell on the walls of the Japanese Jail, Garapan, Saipan by a photo taken in 1944 a woman from Colorado gave an interpretation of the mystic message. It was said that whoever wrote the inscription on the wall knew their astrology and knew their astrological chart. Mike Campbell and Tom Devine’s book contains the whole interpretation of the inscription, because of the sophistication of the symbols, it could have been only written by Amelia Earhart. According to the symbols, Amelia is praying for action from the planet Mars and good fortune from Jupiter. She is crying out for Mars and Jupiter to come for her in the hour of need. Mars and Jupiter appear as a conjunct on July 24, 1897, the date Earhart was born.

As for most, sympathy, pity and great grief are the only feelings they feel for the famous aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in the hands of the Japanese. This said to be film will be a tribute for their heroism and bravery as we celebrate their 70^th year.

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The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, multi mission and tactical aircraft designed for the offensive, both ground and aerial targets.

The F/A-18A entered service on September 13, 1978 and its maiden flight was on November 18. The first production of F/A-18A flew on April 12, 1980. The F/A-18 first saw combat action in April 1986, the time during operation Prairie Fire, when VFA-131 Hornets from USS Coral Sea flew SEAD missions against Libyan air defenses.

The aircraft has an M611A1 20-mm gun mounted inside the nose of the craft and carries up to 13,700 pounds of external ordinance and has nine weapon stations.

The F/A-18 fulfills these assignments: fighter escort, suppression of enemy air defenses, forward air control, close air support and day and night strike missions. The F/A-18A has a maximum speed of 1,190 mph at 40,000 ft. and has a ferry range of 2,070 mi. The F/A-18 utilizes various systems and technologies to minimize the likelihood of detection. It has an APG-73 with increased speed and memory capacity. It also has a laser target designator/ranger which enables it to deliver precision laser-guided bombs accurately.

In 2001, four F/A-18A aircrafts were deployed to Diego Garcia during coalition operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The F/A-18 has been deployed by the armed services to the United States (Navy an Marines), Canada, Australia, Spain, Kuwait, Finland, Switzerland and Malaysia.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) is currently one among the three operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA. It was named after the two-masted boat of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966 and it served as the primary research vessel.

Atlantis’ maiden flight was on October 1985. Atlantis went seven straight flights to the Russian space station Mir. The spacecraft served as the on-orbit launch site for many notable and noteworthy spacecrafts, including planetary probes Magellan and Galileo. In 1991, it deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Atlantis underwent refitting operations and modifications including the installation of a glass cockpit. Atlantis completed an 11-day mission to the International Space Station, involving three space walks in October 2002.

During September 9-24, 2005, Atlantis was scheduled for its 27th launch though the mission was suspended by NASA due to the complications during Discovery’s launch of mission STS-114 and there are subsequent suspensions of all future shuttle launches. Atlantis was scheduled to fly the STS-121 mission, but the mission was flown by Discovery instead.

In the recent years, Atlantis has delivered several vital components, the U.S. laboratory module, Destiny, the Joint Airlock Quest and multiple sections of the Integrated Truss structure that serves as the backbone of the International Space Station.

As of September 2006, Atlantis completed 28 flights, spent 220.40-days in space, completed 3,468 orbits and flown 89,908,732 nautical miles in total.

Atlantis is scheduled to remain operational until 2010, the Shuttle program’s projected end, but is not currently scheduled for any missions further in 2008.