Robert Ballard went in search of Amelia Earhart's lost plane. Two weeks and a multimillion-dollar search later, he said he found no hint of it. Explorer Allison Fundis '03 co-leads a National Geographic-funded expedition to find Amelia Earhart's plane.
Credit: Library of Congress Robert Ballard is the finder of important lost things. In 1985, he discovered the Titanic scattered beneath the Atlantic Ocean. He and his team also located the giant Nazi battleship Bismarck and, more recently, 18 shipwrecks in the Black Sea.
Dr. Ballard. Who else has looked for Amelia Earhart? Modern-day searches for Earhart include: 2002: The ocean technology company Nauticos launches the first of three expeditions to find Earhart's plane.
PICTURED: The 1930s radio faithfully restored in a bid to find Amelia Earhart's plane The company obtained and restored a Western Electric 13C aircraft transmitter and a Bendix Model RA. Ballard and his colleagues will be basing their search on the belief that Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane eventually washed down the slope, leaving Earhart and Noonan stranded on the island. Amelia Earhart mystery 'solved' by experts pinpointing crash site using 90 year.
KINGSTON, R.I. - July 24, 2019 - University of Rhode Island Professor of Oceanography Robert Ballard and his team aboard the E/V Nautilus will begin a quest in August to find Amelia Earhart's airplane, National Geographic has announced. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared more than 80 years ago during her around-the-world flight.
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Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. Exclusive: Inside the search for Amelia Earhart's airplane Many attempts have been made to discover the famed aviator's fate, but never with the technological tools at Robert Ballard's disposal. Amelia Earhart's lost plane has garnered international fame simply for being lost - but Robert Ballard thinks he can change that.
Ballard, who found the Titanic on the Atlantic Ocean floor in 1985, is pioneering a fresh search for Earhart's aircraft, a Lockheed Electra 10E. His resume includes quite a few famously lost seacraft, including the Nazi battleship Bismark and 18 shipwrecks in the.