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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

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

Poet of the public school

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Published: Thursday 07 June 1962
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 562 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GARDENING Amelia Earhart's ancestors came from Derry

... GARDENING Amelia Earhart's ancestors came from Derry It was revealed in Londonderry yesterday that when Miss Amelia Earhart landed two miles from Londonderry in May, 1932, after her history-making trans-Atlantic solo flight, she was actually going to ...

Published: Thursday 21 June 1962
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... station in Eire. ' As well as the account of Lindbergh's famous flight in “The Spirit of St. Louis,” the many attempts by Amelia Earhart are given in detail, including the first crossing of the ocean by a woman--in 1928, Recording her solo flight across the ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1963
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LETTERS

... was the arrival of the Italian fleatlane Armada under General %nlbo at Culmore, followed by the dramatic arrival of Mias Amelia Earhart and her descent in a field near to Londonderry Finally came the Second World War and the North-West was firmly marked ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1963
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TOUGHEST DAYS AHEAD?

... essentially land-minded. Alcock and Whitten Brown, Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Mollison, the illfated Charles Kingsford-Smith, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post are among the names that come to mind linking the present with exploits already enveloped in the mists ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1967
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

More information

... Memorial commemorative plaque may be erected at the spot at Culmore, not far from Londonderry, where the famous woman aviator Amelia Earhart landed after her lone flight across the Atlantic in 1932. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1967
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

By Ross Madden

... he was 16 he had his polit's licence. “I was born and raised in the flying crowd,” he said. “My father was a friend of Amelia Earhart and he and I used to fly all over the south-west in an old Command - Air biplane.” He flew in the Second World War, after ...

Published: Tuesday 30 September 1969
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Amelia Earhart is ‘alive in America’

... Amelia Earhart is ‘alive in America’ Amelia Earhart, the woman pilot who flew to Northern Ireland in May, 1932, and who disappeared with her plape over the Pacific in 1937, is alive and at present lving in America, according to two former American air ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1970
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 343 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

. Hail and farewell to the Bellamys

... serve anyway. 1t was the age of Prohibition in America, of jazz and the Charleston, of lone aviators like Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart, of the first talkies from Hollywood, of votes for women. The series has alternately pleased and annoyed me. Just as you ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1975
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none