... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... personality to hit the Irish scene since Brendan Bowyer: *The Smokey Mountain Ramblers. whose latest disc, “The Ballad of Amelia Earhart,” is already selling well, are appearing on the Johnny M‘Evoy show in the Ulster Hall on June 5. ...

... Derry. It will be recalled | represented. that it was on the Gallagher farm | A considerable number of at Springfield that Amelia Earhart | breeders of both cattle and sheep chose to land after her famous solo | in Co. Donegal continue to be trans-Atlantic ...

... have the Smoiceys play at the dance with a relief band for the first how or so— Just like our tap ahowbands do? Their Amelia Earhart was a real brealrthrough. They have scores of other country tunes tucked up their sleeves, waiting for the right time ...

... 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 ...

... an hour and sixteen minutes. Two members of the unofficial reception party. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McCallion. invited Miss Amelia Earhart was a brave and extraordinary woman, an ardent feminist, who broke off several engagements as a girl because she wanted ...

... Derry Londonderry. June 21. 1962 EDITOR'S NOTE . (Since we featured the story in ‘the “Sentinel” (June 20) about Miss Amelia Earhart and the research by her biographer, Mrs. Clara Studer, we have received very many photographs of Miss Earhart and her ...

... mum another rung on the ladder to Currach. This was to mark the stardom. success of their record, “Baidin The fact that Amelia Earhart 5 ocgnliml” which was made for Gael-Linn and is the first flew to Ireland—Dorry, in fact Irish % song ever to —on her ...

... poems and a play —a book to treasure. The Vanguard Book of Adventure (Collins. 30s) mixes fiction with reminiscences of Amelia Earhart. climbing Everest and the Eiger and polar exploration. Finally, some books full of inventive drawings and just enough ...

... Holywell takes place Sl h excuse h. fl-flu“@ work of the Friends, who R years 6go fl'ufl“‘“““m—wxmm;’{’d This strategic Miss Amelia Earhart, the invite v.u.nu to m&. iy | woman ”'&W At om mwmmm'm fow miles {roC; them an opportunmity to tPonMßndl.tou.lMuu Bk ...

... 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 ...