... Clue to Earhart mystery BONES found on a Polynesian island may be those of aviator Amelia Earhart who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 when bidding to be the first woman to fly around the world. The bones were found on Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific ...

... History of the urple hearts write with regard to the item concerning Amelia Earhart, and her cousin Joseph Earhart Sardo. The three purple hearts Mr Sardo won for distinguished service, while serving in the US Navy, would have been won because he was ...

... programme would be as exciting as the Belfast '9l Festival. One event that Foyle tourist chiefs are known to be planning is an Amelia Earhart commemoration air race from London to Londonderry. ¢ . Next year will be the 60th anniversary of Ms Earhart’s historic ...

... Derry lays on special air event LONDONDERRY is organising a special air race, starting from London. to mark the flight by Amelia Earhart across the Atlantic 50 years ago. More than 30 competitors are expected to take part in the race on May 22. It could become ...

... Twenty-five years au belfast News-| | Miss Amelia Earhart Iz Soringfield. near Lond ‘atter the fastest Atlantic ! record. lAn extensive ‘was put in hand for the i 'ment of the telephonic a graphic communication in and between the Provin Great Britain ...

... Holland. The club will be displaying amodel Lockhead Vega built to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the historic landing by Amelia Earhart in a field at Ballyamett after her solo flight from the USA. ...

... a woman of Amelia’s height (sft 7 ins). Mr Thompson said: “From that, Gillespie is inferring that they could belong to Amelia Earhart, but I must say that Gillespie has come up with a few other things in the past that have not proved to be true.” He said ...

... been organised to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the landing on the outskirts of Londonderry of famous female aviator Amelia Earhart, making her the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. To commemorate that historic milestone in aviation history ...

... air y Lambeg man was smong _ the trophy winners in the recent air ~ace from London to Eglinton in connection with the Amelia Earhart -¢lebrations. He is 22-year-old Mr. v.gel Smith, son of Mr. Mrs. Raymond ventnor Park, Smith Lambeg Mr. Smith, who was ...

... Fiona McSherry, 23, from Newry, has retumed from a presentation ceremony in Switzerand at which she was awarded a Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship worth 6,000 dollars. The fellowships are awarded annually to women studying aerospace and engineering subjects ...

... Bid to solve pilot Earhart death riddle THE leader of an American team hoping to solve the 52-year-old mystery of where Amelia Earhart crashed said yesterday he believes her plane went down on an uninhabited island and she died of thirst three days later ...

... could help.” Just as a casual footnote Phyllis informs 18 that Springfield Farm was where pio-leer transatlantic aviator Amelia Earhart anded in 1932. “My husband Bert, then 10 rears old, remembers her vividly.” Like Amelia, Phyllis covers a lot of ‘ground” ...