... No Amelia Earhart plaque The Northern Ireland Tourist Board has informed Londonderry Rural District Council about difficulties regarding the erection of a commemorative plaque to Miss Amelia Earhart who landed her plane near the city after flying solo ...

... Amelia Earhart commemoration The Northern Ireland Tourist Board is prepared to share the cost _qf proyiding a commemorarive plaque at the site near the .any where Miss Amelia Earhart, landed her plane after com pleting her solo fli?hf across thle Atlantic ...

... AMELIA EARHART'S ANCESTORS CAME FROM LONDONDERRY [‘HE astounding fact has now emerged that when the intrepid Amelia Earhart in her little red plane fluttered to earth in a lush paddock on the outskirts of Londonderry 30 years ago after her historymaking ...

... Extra Men For The Smokeys ? THE Smokey Mountain Ramblers made their disc debut with “The Ballad of Amelia Earhart” which brought their brand of music to a wider audience and resulted in lots of work for Ireland’s only authentic country and western outfit ...

... Corporation on a 50- 50 basis in the provision of a memorial plaque at the spot at Culmore where the lone woman aviator, Amelia Earhart landed following her historic trans-Atlantic flight. The arrangement is subject 10 the Rural Council being responsible ...

... Dolphin Label. The Smokey Mountain Ramblers, who star a great fiddle player in George Kaye, have just issued “The Ballad of Amelia Earhart,” the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo —in 1928. On July 2, 1937, the world was stunned with the news that the courageous ...

... Rural Council with a proposal that a plaque should be erected on the main road near Culmore indicating the spot where Miss Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a woman in May, 1932. DEATH (Late for Classification) EATON—At ...

... the plane landed. In these days of trans-; atlantic jets it is interesting to recall the hazards which early fliers like Amelia Earhart over-l came. Four hours out over the! Atlantic from Harbour Grace, | Newfoundland, the starting point of her epic flight ...

... warning to the powers that be in Londonderry that the stage is coming when Londonderry will actually have to prove that Amelia Earhart did land in Londonderry, and put the city into the headlines of the world’s Press. About three years ago the “Sentinel” ...

... FOR PRESENTATION TO CITY He said in his letter: “The field in question is that in which Miss Amelia Earhart landed following her trans-Atlantic flight in 1932, The field measures approximately twenty acres and will be on offer by public auction on Thursday ...

... made on Sunday, 25th July, 1909, by the Frenchman, M. Bleriot. Almost 23 years later, on Saturday, 2llst May, 1932, Miss Amelia Earhart arrived at Culmore, near Derry, after making her memorable flight across the Atlantic. Five years earlier, on Saturday ...

... written to Londonderry Rural Council suggesting a site for the proposed plaque to be erected to mark the place where Miss Amelia Earhart landed in May, 1932, after her record breaking flight from Newfoundland in the pioneer days of trans-Atlantic aviation ...