I would use the word “fixed” very loosely. One thing I still have problems with is that in some threads, there is no blue menu bar at the top of the thread for the Historic Aviation forum, which means you have to go back to the main forum menu, click on Historic Aviation, and then drill back down to the discussion thread you were on …

Don’t hold your breath … you’ll turn a funny blue color.

Peter – it’s not just you. Pretty much ALL of the links in old posts do that. Which Key has known about for months.

And I thought only the TIGHAR forums could get heavy-handed when you disagreed with them …

It’s been nominally interesting to watch how thought processes evolve on TIGHAR’s closed, member’s only forum. Now there is a great deal of discussion about a wire that was found tangled in the largish piece of aircraft aluminum that Gillespie insists is from Earhart’s aircraft, and which TIGHAR found in 1991 … almost three decades ago, https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,2120.0.html . 

It seems that anytime interest flags in TIGHAR in general or the Earhart Project in particular, something “new” pops up to generate excitement. Even if it is an item or fact or whatever that TIGHAR has had for years and should have run down and categorized/analyzed/reported on at the time.

Mr. Williams – first, welcome to the Key Aero forums, such as they are after the infamous  “update” last year.

Second, to clarify, aviationmystery.com is not my baby; I have nothing to do with it. At one point I was an active participant but decided for personal reasons to step away. The reason you keep getting the “403-Forbidden, you don’t have permission to access” error is because the forum owner is very zealous in blocking IP addresses he considers hostile from a spam/malware/virus standpoint. Some people get the same 403-Forbidden error when they search for my TIGHAR analysis, http://myplace.frontier.com/~monty.fowler/tighar_analysis.htm , because my ISP is, well, @*#&^@#$%@#%(*@#^!!!.

I’m not surprised that Gillespie has shredded your posts, and done so in a less-than-friendly manner. He has a business to protect, after all.

P.S. – Key please note, the “insert hyperlink” button isn’t working …

Unfortunately, J Boyle, TIGHAR itself is the only source for its membership numbers. The IRS allows entities to “estimate” the number of volunteers, which is apparently what TIGHAR considers its members. Still, there are some odd variations …

• 2009 – 600
• 2010 – 600
• 2011 – 600
• 2012 – 1,100 No explanation for this 500 member jump.
• 2013 – 1,000
• 2014 – 1,000
• 2015 – 1,000
• 2016 – 1,000
• 2017 – ??? As previously noted, this is now about two years past due.