Chasing Earhart

For 80 years, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has remained a mystery. But an ongoing analysis of recently found aircraft wreckage by a specialty lab team from Parker Hannifin Corporation may finally prove where she and her co-pilot disappeared. The investigation highlights one of many ways that Parker Hannifin solves the world’s greatest engineering challenges. In episode Twent...

Welcome back to the Chasing Earhart podcast and the final part of our conversation with Chief Leo Bellarts. In part three of our conversation and episode twenty of the podcast, we continue to go line by line through the radio logs with Leo as our guide, as he breaks it down and walks us through the final moments of Amelia and Fred’s world flight on July 2nd 1937.

A short while ago we reached out to Aaron; one of the co hosts over at the hugely popular Generation Why podcast and we inquired about doing something together for Chasing Earhart. The Chasing Earhart team was greatly impressed with their take on the Amelia Earhart case and we were excited about the opportunity to feature Aaron and Justin in the project. They were kind enough to invite our project...

Welcome back to the Chasing Earhart podcast and our continuing conversation with Chief Radio man on the Itasca, Leo Bellarts. In episode nineteen, we continue talking with Leo about that fateful day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared without a trace. Leo continues his intimate and in-depth thoughts on what went wrong from the unique vantage point of the people that were on the...

"KHQQ Calling Itasca! We must be on you but cannot see you!" On episode 18 of the Chasing Earhart podcast we continue our "ICON" series with part one of our interview with chief radio man of the Itasca Leo Bellarts. The last person to speak with Amelia Earhart before she disappeared, Mr. Bellarts gives us an intimate and in depth interview discussing little known stories about that fateful day and...

Andrew McKenna was the Dive Team leader on the Niku IX expedition. He has been a TIGHAR member since 1990 and currently serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. The son of famous paleontologist Malcolm McKenna, Andrew’s archaeological eye was trained from childhood helping his father on fossil hunts in the Gobi Desert and other remote locations. Andrew participated in underwater and onshor...

Considered by many to be one of the most respected Amelia Earhart researchers around, Ron Bright is an extraordinary asset to Chasing Earhart. Among the topics discussed in episode sixteen of the Chasing Earhart podcast will be Ron's work on the "Weihsein Telegram", the various disappearance hypothesis' regarding Amelia and Fred, Amelia's impact and legacy in 2017 and his personal feelings on whet...

Ellie Norman is a busy high schooler from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her life is filled with school, sports, music, theater, pets, and family, but there is nothing that interests her more than Amelia Earhart. For as long as she can remember, Amelia has been her inspiration and role model, and Ellie never wants to stop learning about her. From first learning about her in the picture book, Amelia and Ele...

"I didn't go out looking for this story. This story found me." Dick Spink has many titles: Mount Vernon High School science teacher, boat builder, and Amelia Earhart investigator. He never intended to hunt for Amelia Earhart’s airplane. He specializes in boats. He put himself through Washington State University designing and fabricating aluminum boats. He now holds on to a day job teaching at Moun...

Sylvia Wrigley is a pilot and aviation writer who has been obsessing about aviation safety for over a decade. Sylvia has authored many aviation books including "Unable to Reach You By Radio: The Tragedy of Amelia Earhart", "You Fly Like a Woman", "The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight 370" and her incredibly fascinating "Why Planes Crash Case Files: 2001" and "Why Planes Crash Case Files: 2002"....

In episode twelve of the Chasing Earhart podcast, we chat with author and educator Kate Jerome about her book "Who Was Amelia Earhart" which is part of the New York Times Best Selling Series of "Who Was" books. "Who Was Amelia Earhart" is still on the Amazon best seller list, 15 years after it's release and serves as a staple for children and young adults that are wanting an introduction to Amelia...

Considered by many within and outside of the Earhart community as the foremost authority on celestial navigation in the world, Gary LaPook has been interested in Amelia Earhart since the 90's; studying the flight at length from multiple facets using multiple skill sets. Recorded live on location in Gary's living room in Moorpark, California we spoke at length about the world flight, Amelia Earhart...

This dramatic controversial novel is not your typical Amelia Earhart biography or dry report. Two expert pilots ask pivotal questions and provide valuable pieces to the 75 yr. old puzzle about Earhart's mysterious disappearance. Were they on a secret mission to photograph Japanese installations? Who kidnapped them? Was FDR part of the government cover-up that continues to this day? And most import...

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries A while ago, we were alerted to a podcast hosted by Jon Hagadorn titled 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries. They recently released a two part Amelia Earhart retrospective series that detailed the Japanese capture hypothesis in great detail. Covering information that hadn't been widely distributed, Jon and his team dove deep into the hypo...

Amelia Earhart's Radio: A Conversation with Paul Rafford Jr. by Chasing Earhart

In our eighth episode of the Chasing Earhart podcast, we welcome Abigail Harrison or as she is more commonly known, "Astronaut Abby"! In this in-depth and revealing interview, we chat with Abby about the inspiration of Amelia Earhart, the Mars Generation, STEM, her work as an aspiring astronaut and why she feels that overcoming your fears and chasing your dreams is the very best way to achieve eve...

A curious young girl. A  mysterious and reclusive woman. In this episode, we discuss the novel "Miss E" with author and educator Brian Herberger. We discuss the research and writing of the book as well as detailed plot spoilers and characters in this compelling novel that mixes historical fact with fiction and imagination that takes all on a journey of discovery.

In episode five of the Chasing Earhart podcast, we welcome William (Bill) Snavely to discuss the numbers in the Amelia Earhart world flight. Among the topics discussed are fuel consumption, the three factors that he believes contributed most to the world flight and why he believes that Amelia and Fred turned the Electra around when they were convinced that the fuel they had was not going to be eno...

In our fourth episode, we speak with Susan Ware; author of "Still Missing" Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism." We cover a variety of topics including Amelia's feminist role model status to women in the 1930's as well as her ongoing impact on today's youth.

Since the inception of this podcast, people have suggested a number of folks for us to talk to. However there has been one person that's stood out among all the rest. I cannot tell you how many times people have asked me, "When are you going to have Ric Gillespie on?" Well how about now? Ric sat in with us and gave the longest, most in depth interview he's ever given regarding Ms. Earhart and the...

Our guest this week is Paul Niquette from "Which Way Amelia?" Paul has been studying the disappearance of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan for many years. Mr. Niquette focuses his efforts on the final 20 hours of the world flight; breaking down different aspects of the flight into ten puzzles that challenge the common thinking and enlighten people on the facts of the flight. Enjoy this fascinating...

We are very honored and excited to bring you the very first episode of the C h a s I n g E a r h a r t podcast! Our guest for the inaugural episode, is TIGHAR senior archaeologist Tom King. In this episode we talk with Tom about his background in archaeology and his thoughts and opinions on the work that the TIGHAR team has done over the course of the last 28 years. If after the podcast, you have...