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... Labrador, W. F. Massey, Earl Jellicoe, Sir Frederick Treves, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Henry Wilson. Earl Haig, Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart. Dr. Hansen, Viscount Pirrie, Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff are other signatures to be found in this fine collection. sal% ...

Published: Friday 02 June 1950
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1166 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... Wrong-way Corrigan, it will be remembered, circled over Belfast and then made for Dublin, not at all sure where he was. Amelia Earhart unexpectedly landed in a field outside Derry. A colleague of mine covering the Lindbergh flight had his own ingenious ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1952
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 674 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ISTAMP CORNER ape of al Curly-locks,

... errors. specimens and varieties, as well as, about the air journeys by Alcock Brown. Hawker, Mackenzie Grie‘e, Pined°. Amelia Earhart and others.l 160 pages. 160 illustrations An cl maps. Distributed by H. R. Harmer. In(., 32 East Fifty-Seventh Street ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1953
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 937 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Coining down

... Friendship with Miss Amelia Earhart. Mr. Wilrner Stultz piloti. and a mcchanice named Gordon, reached Bury Point. Caermarthen. yesterday at 12.40 p.m. alter a fhght lasting hours from Trepassy. Newfoundland, Miss Amelia Earhart. an American, thus has ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1953
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WOMEN WHO PIONEERED FLYING

... her fellow pioneers of the air. her career was a brief one. She died a crash near her home in Boston three months later. Amelia Earhart’s exploits, prior to her fatal venture in 1937. placed her the front rank of pilots, men or women. She was the first woman ...

Published: Monday 10 August 1953
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 458 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIRST WOMAN TO FLY A PLANE SOLO DIES

... crossing. Her fellow pupils included the famous Wright bother; and her Voi's licence was numbared 31S. Captain Herveux taught Amelia Earhart to fly and her flying career in all extended over 30 years. A bachseat driver Mk. 4 with a high.pitched yoke telephoned ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1955
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Fokker’s first post-war airliner rpHE prototype of Holland’s first airliner since the war, the Fokker F-27 ..

... Then there were the pioneer aircraft of civil aviation 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 aircraft. Fokker airliners pioneered all the ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FLYING HOUSEWIVES

... specially noted for their exploits are the Ninety-Nines, a nationally recognised group of women fliers organised by the late Amelia Earhart (well remembered In Derry, where she landed), before her tragic disappearance eighteen years ago. There are branches in ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1955
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Gleanings from bOllt Town & Country

... flln mounting ten: Bombay, where Moslem Hindus were engaged in co riots, the casualty roll stoc dead“ and 650 injured Amelia Earhart, the first w cross the Atlantic by ac was making plans fo flight from America to fAn R.A.F. flying-hoat, o! |distance ...

Published: Monday 20 May 1957
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 410 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Twenty-five years au belfast News-|

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1957
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Adventurm

... crossing from Newfoundland to Galway at an average speed of 118.5 m.p.h. which remained the fastest flight until Miss Amelia Earhart broke it with a coast-tocoast time of 134 hours. But, as the author reminds us. all these speeds are insignificant in ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1958
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1602 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

An Ulsterman's Diary

... by another famous air pioneer. From 1925 until 1941 he was It was in the summer of 1932 medical superintendent of that Amelia Earhart became the Forster Green Hospital. Belfast. first woman to fly the Atlantic. and for the next five years ryas Her red ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1959
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1366 | Page: 4 | Tags: none