... Famous Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix who landed at Derry's ourskirts, had a varied and interesting life. She was born in 1898 in Atchinson, Kansas. In her late teens, during the first World War, she was a military nurse in Canada. After the war ...

... RAF withdrew Spectators who attended the Amelia Earhart Air Show at Eglinton Airport have been critical of the absence from the announced programme of a number of items that were to have been presented by the Royal Air Force. Several spectators told the ...

... Rural Council with a proposal that a plaque should be erected on the main road near Culmore indicating the spot where Miss Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a woman in May, 1932. DEATH (Late for Classification) EATON—At ...

... on a charge of attempting to extort two thousand dollars from Mr. George Puttam for the safe return of his wife. Miss Amelia Earhart. The man was alleged to have told Mr. Putnam that he was a seaman on the ship from New Guinea which took off an injured ...

... a Vauxhall Cavalier which had been stolen a short time earlier in Dungiven was abandoned and set on fire outside the Amelia Earhart Centre. A short time later - around 12.50 am - a van used for selling veg- etable produce which was parked at Liscloon ...

... asked the tall fair, closecropped young woman with the blackened face. ‘“Who are you,”” got the stunning answer “I‘m, Amelia Earhart, and-I flew from America.” But still there is no memorial to this historic event and nothing to ‘“‘Mark the o:rot. There ...

... MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY WHEN AMELIA EARHART was asked in Derry if she'd like to return to the city by ‘plane, she replied: “’| think you had better get an airport here before you invite people to come here by air.” Derry did get its airport ...

... a function he met the representatives of the American Consulate who had been present at the dedication ceremony of the Amelia Earhart Monument on the outskirts of Londonderry. The representative had taken photographs of the monument and had sent the film ...

... RIALTO ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Telephone: 260516 Concert Venue — Seating Capacity 1,100 FOYLE VALLEY RAILWAY Telephone: 266234 AMELIA EARHART COTTAGE Telephone: 354040 Best wishes to the North West College of Technology on their new BTEC Performing Arts Course ...

... the plane landed. In these days of trans-; atlantic jets it is interesting to recall the hazards which early fliers like Amelia Earhart over-l came. Four hours out over the! Atlantic from Harbour Grace, | Newfoundland, the starting point of her epic flight ...

... Chairman, Councillor William McCartney who said the air race would be ‘‘one of the most exciting ventures to emerge from the Amelia Earhart celebrations because it was anticipated the race would attract very wide publicity. the race has been completed,” he ...

... CROSSED IN DRIVING RAIN DAKAR (Senegal), Tuesday—Miss Amelia Earhart arrived here to-day from St. Louis, about sixty miles to the North, at eight a.m. to-day. She said that her trip across the Atlantic yesterday had been without incident in spite of driving ...