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derek muller #Engineering

Veritasium | What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?

The mistakes of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, and the physics that could have saved her.

00:00 - Amelia Earhart’s final flight

03:33 - Who was Amelia Earhart?

05:36 - The flight plan

07:13 - How celestial navigation works

09:16 - Invention of radio technology

12:02 - Radio waves explained

22:44 - Earhart makes her critical decision

24:55 - Communication failures

28:30 - Gas is running low

31:39 - Her desperate final message

33:01 - The small detail that could have saved her

Derek
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