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... charge of navigation and radio for Amelia Earhart on her first attempt to fly round the world at the Equator. After the first leg of the flight there were so many delays that he had to rejoin his ship. Amelia Earhart lost her life at the second attempt ...

Published: Tuesday 08 July 1952
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 383 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... which would return her to San Francisco in 60 hours Only two men Bill Odum and Wiley Post have circled the globe solo Amelia Earhart in teh Pacific 1937 while trying to do so The Pope The Pope who steadily regaining his strength may be able to resume ...

Published: Monday 15 March 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4740 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BY OUR• MOTORING CORRESPONDENT

... YEARS CAREER Her fellow pupils included the famous Wright brothers and her pilot's licence was numbered 318. She taught Amelia Earhart to fly and her flying career in all over 30 years. beginning in 1909. She served as a captain in the French Army in the ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1955
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 843 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

BY OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT

... YEARS CAREER Her fellow pupils included the famous Wright brothers and her pilot's licence was numbered 318. She taught Amelia Earhart to fly and her flying career in all over 30 years. beginning in 1909. She served as a captain in the French Army in the ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1955
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 659 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Fokkers are back the flying business

... Then there were the pioneer planes of civil aviation in the 19205. Admiral Byrd's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and Amelia Earhart's historic Atlantic crossing two years later were both achieved with Fokker planes. World War II left Fokkers main factory ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 240 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

If Unemployment Came

... n there were the pioneer planes of civil aviation in the 1920'5. Admiral Byrd's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and Amelia Earhart's historic Atlantic crossing two years later were both achieved with Fokker planes. Fokker airliners pioneered all the ...

Published: Tuesday 21 June 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1406 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

`Mr. Escape':

... the South Seas There followed torture, which include a chapter on the last flight ranged from savage beatings to a of Amelia Earhart new variation on the theme the Gestapo knew so well; he was shut GAME-AND in a refrigerator, thawed out, shut in again ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1957
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 577 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUPPLFME!kIT

... took a leading part in the dispute about miners' conditions that led to the General Strike.l 192 Q —June 19: To Miss Amelia Earhart, of Boston. Mass.. belongs the honour of being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from west to east. She left Newfoundland ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1503 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

... University and then learned to fly. But her main occupation in life was social welfare work among the poor children of Boston. Amelia Earhart flew only for fun and as a relaxation from her real job. Yet her bravery and skill did much to further the progress of ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

After a much-needed sleep in the farmer's house, Miss Earhart told of the ordeals she had survived an her lonely

... Londonderry. So she followed a railway track until she saw the broad field in which she made her landing. T o the Day Amelia Earhart, one of the most courageous and best known American woman pilots. Her nick name was Lady Lindy. roads, schools extra ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 520 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

INNER RING

... 1937, ended with a crash at Honolulu. A second world flight, which began at Miami. Florida, in June, 1938, proved to be Amelia Earhart's last great adventure. With Captain Fred Noonan as her navigator, she set off in a plane which had been caned the Flying ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1959
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 267 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Plane Wreck Link With Woman Flyer? THE discovery of wreckage of a pre-war American plane, in a bay off the

... Pacific island of Saipan. has given rise to new speculation in New York about the fate of the famous American airwoman, Miss Amelia Earhart, who disappeared on a round-the-- world flight in 1937. In a radio report, Mr. Don Motley, of the Columbia Broadcasting ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1960
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 6 | Tags: none