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NEARING END OF THE PACIFIC “HOP.” Atlantic Attempt To-Day? ITALIA RESCUE HOPES. World interest at present is ..

... American attempt to fly the Atlantic from Newfoundland to London may start to-day. The flyers are Wilmer Stultz and Miss Amelia Earhart, in a Fokker ’plane. HONOLULU, Monday. The latest wireless message received, from the Southern Cross, piloted by Capt ...

Published: Tuesday 05 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RIVAL WOMEN FLIERS

... FLIERS. PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHTS ACROSS ATLANTIC. ST. JOHN’S (Nfd.), Thursday. The Fokker ’plane Friendship, on which Miss Amelia Earhart to fly to Southampton, has been unloosed from her moorings a,t Trepassey, and is apparently being prepared for a start ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Razing Chimneys and Trees

... flight, proposes to start tor England to-morrow morning Reuter. TREPASSEY, Wednesday. The seaplane Friendship, in which Amelia Earhart and Mr. AVilmcr Stuliz piopose to make a flight to Southampton, made four more attempts with reduced supplies of petrol ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 629 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

M.P.’s Wife Interested

... E. Guest, M.P., is really the prime mover in the flight, and is said to financing it to the extent of at least £B,OOO. Amelia Earhart was invited to act as one of the two pilots. Miss Earhart, who is pilot of experience, was reported to have said in a ...

Published: Monday 18 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DIRT TRACK RACING DISPUTE

... question worth fighting about I If not, who will show enough strength to get the dispute settled 2 A WOMAN’S TRIUMPH. Miss Amelia Earhart, the American lady who completed an Atlantic flight vesterday, has earned triple congratulations ; she is to be congratulated ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1397 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRST WOMAN TO FLY THE ATLANTIC

... FIRST WOMAN TO FLY THE ATLANTIC. Crowds Mob Her when She Comes Ashore. MISS AMELIA EARHART, a bobbed-haired American of 30, is the first ivoman to fly the Atlantic, and so warm was her welcome to Rritain that she had to have police protection when she ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1655 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ATLANTIC GIRL

... ATLANTIC GIRL. SPEECH TO BE BROADCAST FROM LONDON. (From Our London Stafl.) LONDON, Thursday. The 8.8. C. announces that Miss Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly the Atlantic, will broadcast on Monday next. Her speech, following a luncheon given by the Air ...

Published: Friday 22 June 1928
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HEAD-ON COLLISION

... EUROPE. WOMAN ATLANTIC FLIER’S MACHINE: A NEW VENTURE. NEW YORK, Monday. The tri-motored monoplane, formerly flown by Miss Amelia Earhart, the woman Atlantic flier, has been sold to an Argentine group, according to Mr. Donald Woodward, who bought it from Lady ...

Published: Tuesday 02 April 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 781 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

aeropi e, Yellow Bird. Left to Right, A. Lotti, J. Assolant, . R. Lefevre. *. a *Uii Verg a yesterday

... Commandant Fitzmaurice, Baldonnel (Ireland) to Greenely Island (Quebec), (2,300 miles), in 36} hours. 1928 (June).—Miss Amelia Earhart as passenger in an aeroplane piloted by Wilmer Stutz and Louis Gordon. Newfoundland to Wales (2,000 miles), in 20 hours ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ATLANTIC AIRMAN KILLED. Miss Earhart’s Pilot. WILMER STULTZ IN A FATAL “STUNT.” NEW YORK, Monday. Mr. Wilmer ..

... ATLANTIC AIRMAN KILLED. Miss Earhart’s Pilot. WILMER STULTZ IN A FATAL “STUNT.” NEW YORK, Monday. Mr. Wilmer Stultz, Miss Amelia Earhart’s transatlantic pilot, and two companions have been killed in an aeroplane smash. It appears that Mr. Stultz had taken ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1929
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ate SUDDEN CHANGE” IN course of poseidon

... Arthur Riley, of Kingsway UNHURT IN AUTOGIRO CRASH. FIRST WOMAN TO CROSS ATLANTIC BY AIR. ABILENE (Texas), Friday. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, tho first woman cross the Atlantic by air, crashed in an autogiro from an altitude 30 feet while taking off for ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1367 | Page: 1 | Tags: none