NEW YORK—Calling the breakthrough a major step forward in the enigmatic case of the aviator’s disappearance, experts announced Tuesday they had discovered Amelia Earhart’s long-lost Lockheed 10-E Electra plane on an auxiliary runway at LaGuardia Airport. “Based on our analysis, it appears that during Earhart’s…
The aviation nerd in me wants everyone to know that’s actually a picture of a completely different plane. I’m pretty sure that’s a Douglas C-47 Skytrain.
(Sorry I don’t have a funny comment to add.)
Thank you for this. It was really bugging the shit out of me. I can’t help myself lol.
Me: “Wtf?! That’s no Lockheed Electra Model 10! Hoax!”
If someone wasn’t in the comments saying this, or “that asphalt isn’t the right type for La Guardia”, or “based on the sky in the background, this is actually somewhere in the southern hemisphere”, then I’d be on the wrong website.
It’s also clearly CGI.
Sometimes useful outweighs funny.