Pioneer woman aviator dies

... Bleriot made the first Channel crossing, %ler fellow pupils included the famous Wright brothers. CaPt. Herveux taught Amelia Earhart to fly and her flying career in all extended over thirty vears. beginning in 1909. ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1955
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

fate of air ace

... have been circulating for some time. FALSE REPORTS Mr. Hilton Railey, who organised and managed: one of the flights by Amelia Earhart which preceded her round-theworld attempt, was quoted in the “New York Times” today as saying that the reports that she ...

Published: Monday 04 July 1960
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

6 Evening Telegraph, Wednesday, May 1, 1963

... hours in her twin-engined me Apache. Ty . Miller is going in the reverse direction from that flown by the American fla'er Amelia Earhart, who disappeared_with her navigator over the Pacific in 1937. Mrs. Miller, a Californian, intends to stay in - Honolulu ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1963
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ROUND-THE-WORLD BID IN 1937 PLANE

... 1937 PLANE Ypsilanti, Michigan. A FORMER schoolteacher who plans to retrace the roundthe-world air route attempted by Amelia Earhart 30 years ago is running into problems Miss Earheart never dreamed of. Her biggest headache, says slim, blonde Ann Pellegreno ...

Published: Tuesday 23 May 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

AIRWOMAN'’S ROUND – WORLD FLIGHT ENDS

... 30 - year - old plane at Oakland International Aj Kesterday after a fourweeimt flight around the world in the path of Amelia Earhart. The airwoman and former schoolteacher was accompanied by a three - man crew on the eastbound commemorative flight which ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1967
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The lights went out when | was at a meeting of Culmore Women's Institute but, fortunately the power failure ..

... this Institute in 1961, Mrs. McCarter also referred to a little bit of local Culmore history — the day, May 20, 1932 when Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo landed in her plane at Springfield. Culmore Women's Institute has members from ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1978
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 316 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Shannon – Foyle development talk

... Trans- Atlantic Brides’ Association. Association building; Coshquin community Centre; Kilfennan- Nelson Drive; and the Amelia Earhart Interpretation Centre. Although the schemes are on the list of priorities, this merely means that the Council’s officers ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1978
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

LONE PILOT

... LONE PILOT The 32-year-old lone pilot was Miss Amelia Earhart then known as Lady Lindy because of her likeness to Charles Lindberg, the equally-famed flyer. Forty-seven years ago Amelia Earhart swept low over Londonderry and selected a field — at Springfield ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1979
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

retained by the Board of Trade an their Surveyor of Steam Vessels. Mr. Trevisa Clark and soon secured an order

... French concern, eight for a Canadian company as well as 121,000 tons barges and two dock caissins, also for Canada. Miss Amelia Earhart with her single-engined monopiane in which she flew the Atlantic and landed on the outskirts of Londonderry 150/21 1914-1918 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1979
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 291 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

When Amelia Earhart landed in Derry

... When Amelia Earhart landed in Derry I have recently received a copy of your 150th Anniversary Supplement, 1829-1979, and 1 was delighted to find the article on Miss Amelia Earhart and her single - engined monoplane in which she had flown the Atlantic ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1980
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

CAVALCADES

... hope to take part in the event being organised this year by the Foyle Development Organisation to mark the anniversary of Amelia Earhart's landing near Londonderry after becoming the first lady pilot to fly the Atlantic solo. ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1981
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 11 | Tags: none