Talk:Lady be Good (aircraft)
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[edit] Article origins
This article was originally part of Lady Be Good and was created by other writers. I have moved the discussion about the aircraft to its own article. 23skidoo 20:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
PREVIOUS DISCUSSION The following two threads were originally posted at the talk page for Lady Be Good but have been transferred here to maintain continuity of discussion about the airplane. 23skidoo 20:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
- For anyone interested, the original Lady Be Good article is now a disambiguation page, with separate articles now for Lady Be Good (musical) and Lady Be Good (1941 film). 23skidoo 03:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TV Movie
I seem to recall a made-for-TV movie about the airplane. GreatWhiteNortherner 21:04, May 21, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Plane coordinates
I made an effort to place the coordinates of the plane. I could not find any existing coordinates besides 385 nm / 440 sm "south" of Tobruk (sometimes given as 385 nm/440 sm south of Soluch but not according to this map), and 150 magnetic heading from Soluch. The magnetic declination on that date was -1.9 deg. This triangulates it near 25.7° N 24.6° E. If anyone can narrow this further, so much the better. -Timvasquez 06:03, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
- I just found this source which says "351 nm southeast of Solucha", along the 150 mag heading (148 deg true). If this is correct we'd be looking at 27.1N 23.7E. Then we have another source which says a 140 degree heading! I believe 150 mag 351 nm from Solucha is likely to be more accurate and will go with that until anyone can unravel all this apocryphal information a bit better. -Timvasquez 06:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello A GPS position taken at the site just before the plane was moved to Tobruk is, N 26 42 45.7, E 24 01 27.0
with the memorial marker a slight distance away at, N26 42 06, E24 01 36
The coordinates in this wikipedia entry are off by many many miles and I hope are corrected soon. The positions above also agree with the map of the site in McClendon's book Lady Be Good. The book also states that a body was found 12 miles NNE of the crash site at N 26 54, E 24 08
and one at N 28 10, E 23 05 5 bodies were found approx 21 miles ssw of this spot and another was found 6 miles nnw which is 90 miles from the bailout point and 27 miles into the dunes
[edit] November 9?
Changed dates; November 9, 1958 - where did that come from? Dysmorodrepanis 17:35, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
