In Search of Amelia Earhart notably Andy Roberts who shared vocals on the album, created an atypical British folk album conceived around the idea of the legends surrounding Amelia Earhart and her supposed demise. Matthews had read a book by Fred Goerner hypothesizing that Earhart and her flying companion Frederick Noonan had crashed around the Japanese held Marshall Island area and been taken prisoner by the Japanese on Saipan, in the Marianas, in 1937. Their plane had supposedly been outfitted with aerial cameras and had a bigger fuel tank than anyone outside of the US government knew. After being grilled by Japanese interrogators Earhart would
Private Plane him, but General Melchett allows the transfer. At basic training the next day, Blackadder learns that the flight instructor is Flashheart, and that the actual reason for the name 'Twenty Minuters' is because the 20 minutes is the "life expectancy" of a new pilot. Darling at this point assures Blackadder that he'll be fine as long as he has a good navigator. However, much to Darling's glee, the navigator is Baldrick. Shortly after takeoff, both Blackadder and Baldrick are shot down by a German plane and captured by Baron von Richthofen (Adrian Edmondson), who wants to learn the subtleties of