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WHAT LIMIT TO SPEED?

... SIX days were required to cross the Atlantic in 1819. Our crack liners cross to-day little more than 4i days. Last year Amelia Earhart flew across alone in 13J hours. Before aeroplane* first girdled the globe the round-the-world record, for which there ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1933
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 671 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CARNERA LOSES TITLE “ON HIS FEET”

... and Rhode Island; the Mayor New York, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, and Jack Sharkey. There was also Miss Amelia Earhart, and the Kim stars Ruby Keelor, Dick Powell, and \'t O'Brien- Every one was given a rousing reception. A great commotion ...

Published: Friday 15 June 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Woman's Remarkable Flying Record

... established last May by M. Arnaux, when he averaged 246 miles an hour. Mdlle. Boucher also beat the record for women set up by Amelia Earhart 1950, when she Hew 100 kilometres an average speed of 281 kilometres (approximately miles) an Dour. ...

Published: Thursday 09 August 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIRE RAVAGES AIR GIRL'S HOME

... FIRE RAVAGES AIR GIRL'S HOME AMELIA EARHART'S LOSS. Fire yesterday wrecked a wing of the New York home Mr George Palmer and his wife, Amelia Earh%rt, the Atlantic flier. Many valuable trophies, rare furnishings, and collection of autographs were destroyed ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BUTTERFLIES THAT CROSS ATLANTIC

... BUTTERFLIES THAT CROSS ATLANTIC Lindbergh has flown the Atlantic, the Mollisons, and Miss Amelia Earhart, too. And so .have quite a lot of monarch butterflies, although few people are aware of that. The Monarch D. Plexippus on the showcases—comes to ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1935
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 763 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WOMAN FLYING ACROSS THE PACIFIC ALONE

... THE PACIFIC ALONE ATTEMPTS TO IMPOSE BAN U.S. NAVY AND EXPENSE OF SEARCH Woman Who Has Twice Flown the Atlantic ]fy]ISS AMELIA EARHART (Mrs George Putnam), the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, has taken off from Honolulu on a trans-Pacific solo ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1935
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART'S 2200-MILE HOP

... MISS EARHART'S 2200-MILE HOP First Time It Has Been Done New York. Miss Amelia Earhart, the famous American airwoman, added another record to her successes when she landed at Newark (New Jersey) within twenty miles of New York, after having completed ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1935
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MYSTERY OF ATLANTIC FLYERS

... ' and Ireland in July, 1932. They hours Ia er '' n after being in the air Tw minutes. flew ?rrvm t? S earlier Miss Amelia Earhart (2026 a our Grace to Londonderry ln hours 54 minutes. ...

Published: Thursday 03 September 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MRS MARKHAM TAKES OFF

... colliery baronet. If she succeeds in her flight she will the first woman to accomplish the feat. Only one woman, Miss Amelia Earhart, the American, has accomplished the west to east flight. For meteorological reasons the east to west flight is more risky ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

'PLANE EXPLODES IN AIR

... Jacobsen clear of the burning wreckage and he landed without injury. Six competitors in the race, including the women fliers, Amelia Earhart and Laura Ingalls, are still in the running for the first prize, which amounts to 4500 dollars, with a bonus of 2500 dollars ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MRS MARKHAM'S FUEL

... MARKHAM'S FUEL Mrs Beryl Markham's heroic solo flight across the Atlantic from East to West recalls the sensation Miss Amelia Earhart created throughout the world some years ago by her solo flight from the United States to Europe. Both women are similar ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MRS MARKHAM’S FUEL

... MARKHAM’S FUEL Mrs Beryl Markham's heroic solo flight across the Atlantic from east to west recalls the sensation Miss Amelia Earhart created some years ago by her solo flight from the United States to Europe. Both women are similar character in that they ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1936
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 5 | Tags: none