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Woman Starts on Lone

... Woman Starts on Lone HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland), Friday. M iss Amelia Earhart took off from here to-night for Paris. She is attempting a solo trans-Atlantic flight, and is making for the same destination aimed at by Col. Lindbergh just five years ago ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1932
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANY DEFIED BY HOLLYWOOD

... Gabriel Pascal, the producer who look a chantc with Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.” He is rfoing to make film of the life of Amelia Earhart and has oast Wendy Hiller, the feminine star of Py/imalion,” in the title role. Consultations have progressed with George ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1939
Newspaper: Sheffield Evening Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 257 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JIM MOLLISON SAILS

... —Reuter. AMY v. AMELIA Famous Airwomen to Race MONTREAL. Saturday.—Mrs Mollison (Miss Amy Johnson) and Mrs Pitnam (Miss Amelia Earhart), the foremost women fliers of Great Britain and America respectively, will compete the women's international speed race ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1933
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | 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

ATLANTIC FLIGHTS

... ATLANTIC FLIGHTS Miss Earhart Sets Out for Paris HARBOUR GRACE (Newfoundland), Friday Miss Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman, set out from here to-night on her lone flight to Paris. Miss Earhart, who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air ...

A verdict of accklental death was returned AMELIA EARBARTS TWO JOBS. Greenville. Pennsylvania, Saturday

... A verdict of accklental death was returned AMELIA EARBARTS TWO JOBS. Greenville. Pennsylvania, Saturday. Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam. who flew the Atlantic alone, says that marriage and aviation share equally in her life. Of her career. Mrs. Putnam said: ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1932
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CAMBRIA CROSSES IN

... Harbour Orace (Newfoundland) to Croydon, when he took 13 hours minutes complete the 2.300 miles. On May 20, 1932, Miss Amelia Earhart flew from Harbour Grace to Londonderry (Ireland), covering the 2.000 miles 13J hours. Cambria flew on a Great Circle course ...

ATLANTIC FLIGHT

... ALREADY THE FIRST WOMAN TO MAKE OCEAN CROSSING WITH only a quart of chicken soup for food and petrol for a hours' trip, Miss Amelia Earhart, the noted woman flyer, left Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, at 10.51 (8.5. T.) last nfght on a solo flight across the Atlantic ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1932
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 706 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... set up by Senor Comp°. a Spaniard and was the flnst woman to fly the South Atlantic. At the beginning of the year. Miss Amelia Earhart Mrs. George Putnanu. the American airwoman. flew alone 2.400 mlles over the Pacific from Honululu to California. Undaunted ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1935
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SEARCH FOR MISS EARHART U.S. Battleship Withdrawn WASHINGTON, Monday The Navy Department announced to-day ..

... that the U.S. battleship, Colorado, and its three aeroplanes have withdrawn from the search of the South Seas for Miss Amelia Earhart, the missing airwoman. It is only after a complete search the Phoenix Islands and other islands in the neighbourhood that ...

Published: Tuesday 13 July 1937
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Flight

... Markham, the colliery baronet. If she succeeds. she will be the first woman to accomplish the feat. Only one woman, Miss Amelia Earhart, the American, has accomplished the West to East flight. to-night, I expect that Mrs. Markham will be in New York in ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1936
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Previous Atlantic Flights

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

Published: Saturday 15 June 1929
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 9 | Tags: none