... 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 ...

... Trailblazer of the skies Even now there's romance in the great names from the golden age of flying. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and their geers are still famous alf a century after their great flights. One of the lesser-known lights of the Thirties was ...

... Famous Amelia Earhart, the famous aviatrix who landed at Derry's ourskirts, had a varied and interesting life. She was born in 1898 in Atchinson, Kansas. In her late teens, during the first World War, she was a military nurse in Canada. After the war ...

... . 4 v 4(l‘ r: ! g P AMELIA EARHART were the only people who were facing the camera. The lady pilot turned to Mr. McGeady and told him to put out his cigarette as there was a leak in the petrol tank. She went to the home of Hugh McLaughlin to ask where ...

... looking at the lady pilot. One boy, Patrick Lynch, who was racing up to see the unusual as he obnndl.t‘hh: mflwr. and he and Amelia Earhart ...

... in the Pacific. The plane vanished. Lost While it was generally believed that they were lost at seh, rumours grew that Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan had been captured and possibly killed by the Japanese. These ideas developed from suggestions made ...

... operate a direct air service between New York and Belfast — of particular interest to the American Travel Trade — the Amelia Earhart project that has an international flavour and the promise of attracting visitors from all over the world when a memorial ...

... AMELIA EARHART LANDING COMMEMORATIO 6 Derry Journal, Tuesday, January 13, 1981 THE MONTHLY meeting of Derry City Council’'s Amenities and Leisure Committee was informed that the Foyle Tourism Association in conjunction with the Northern Ireland Tourist ...

... Forgotten Just after I left Derry Amelia Earhart landed her little red aeroplane at Culmore after flying the Atlantic solo; I had followed Amy Johnson's career with interest, including her marriage to Jim Mollison, and 1 though I knew everything about ...

... 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. ...

... Monumentis on the move The proposed monument to the late Amelia Earhart, who landed at Londonderry in 1935 after her historic trans-Atlantic solo flight, will not be placed in the exact spot where she touched down in her red monoplane. Instead, it will ...

... AMELIA EARHART COMMEMORATION Members of the Foyle Tourism Association in Derry are planning to put Derry on the world tourism map next year with a period of special events to mark the historic landing of Amelia Earhart just outside the city fifty years ...