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... Amelia Earhart poses amid the throngs who came to cheer was ready. She donned jodphurs and leather flying suit. The only ration she had with her was one can of tomato soup which she later punctured and sipped throuzh a straw. “1 didn’t bother much about ...
... Female e ’ flier’s epic Two-part special to commemorate Amelia Earhart’s history-making Atlantic journey starts today in Page Four TV and Radio in Page 8 ]’ e — On the Infidelity Benefit It’s an old favourite Ulster malapropism, but there are many more ...
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... mile fluidiatand from Londonderry's sprawling Shantallow and Caimhill housing estates and the Donegal border. Certainly, Amelia Earhart, were she alive, would not have mofm-sd it as the sloping field on which she touched down in her scarlet Lockheed Vega ...
... corridors of Londonderry City Council. It has obviously take the looming 50th anniversary to provide the catalyst for action. Amelia Earhart’s plane came to rest literally yards from the top of this histeric, M';ow rimmed field, a stone's t away from Hughie ...
... The tomboy who grew up to fly the Atlantic IF ANYONE had asked the American flyer, Amelia Earhart, why she wanted to risk her life crossing a seemingly limitless expanse of water in a rickety monoplane. she probably would have replied: For the fun of ...
... Magic, (BBC-2.8.00). JAMES McGeedy and Bert Gallaher recall an event that happened exactly 50 years ago the landing of Amelia Earhart at Londonderry after her history-making solo flight from America, in Scene Around Six (BBC-1, 6.00). The plane landed ...
... Fliers in tribute to Amelia THIS weekend is the 50th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s Ristoric solo flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry. To mark the event, a host of jubilee celebrations are m‘guhn glwein the city, goy Londonderry City ...
... arne. 6v’fm,.t:' vehicie and engine m 2p.m. Y ® Kuflng:' M':i-a‘mmn Races, Ballymena Showgrounds, 1 celebrations to mark Amelia Earhart's solo transatiantic flight, Eglinton Airport, l;ondondony. s ® Ballyciare Civic Week starts with fancy dress parade, ...
... delayed the arrival of planes at Eglinton Airport outside Londonderry today for the 50th anniversary celebrations to mark Amelia Earhart's historic cros• Atlantic flight. About 50 planes were expected to have arrived at the airport by last night from as far ...
... Derry honours the Earhart touch-down THE £3,000 “totem” pole commissioned by Londonderry City Council as a memorial toe Amelia Earhart, who, 50 years ago, touched down th(:»n fztrhse oubkirtlzz:f the ci ter irst transA - tic soZ %'ght by a woman, was i ...
... Solo flight memorial vandalised THE “wind column” unveiled two months ago near Londonderry to mark the 50th mnivm-rfilof Amelia Earhart’s solo flight across the Atlantic, was badly damaged by vandals at the weekend. The 13ft marble sculpture, which stood ...