Romeo Gets Swift Kick Out of Earhart Pic

Is it bigger news Amelia Earhart’s missing plane may have finally been found or Taylor Swift’s whereabouts be unknown at the Chiefs-Ravens game? Please. We’re still trying to get a grip on iconic woman aviator’s mysterious disappearance.

The WSJ’s “Is This Amelia Earhart’s Long-Lost Plane?” relates how “experts are intrigued” after the latest adventurer to hunt for it says fuzzy sonar image shows the twin-engine aircraft Earhart was flying when she vanished in 1937. You’ll recall the many theories offered for Earhart’s tragic ending while trying to be the first to circumnavigate the globe, some of them bizarre, like the one claiming she was a US spy captured by the Japanese. This is different. The location where Tony Romeo, a pilot & former US Air Fore Intelligence Officer, says he captured the image of Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra, “is about right” where it should have been given the triangulated communications of the day, said Dorothy Cochrane, a curator in the aeronautics department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum. And, sonar experts who have viewed the image agree that it’s unusual enough to take a closer look.

Having cashed in his life savings to get the latest image, a smitten Romeo breathlessly vows to go back & get a more detailed pic, perhaps showing the plane’s markings one would expect to be on the one Earhart was flying. As the newspaper reminded, “At the dawn of the modern aviation age, Earhart’s record-breaking run as a pioneering pilot made her an international celebrity. She was the first woman to fly solo, nonstop across the continental US & the Atlantic, & the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland over the Pacific.” Said an overwhelmed Romeo, “For her [Earhart] to go missing was just unthinkable … Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.” Can’t imagine. Can only wish we could see a Chiefs game without her puss on tv … and that Amelia’s watery grave be found so she could RIP.

Davd Soul