... carriage way to the grandstand when the crowds cheered their horses. There was greater excitement one day in 1932, when Amelia Earhart landed at a field in the district. The races came to an end around the 1920 s and the track was used on fine summer days ...

... race officials and sponsors. race, organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Derry landing of American pilot, Amelia Earhart, was greeted with great enthusiasm. He said this year's race title should also include a reference to Earhart. Mr. Cathal ...

... The record was coincide with the Ssoth recorded on Jim's own anniversary celebrations of independent label “‘See Em” Amelia Earhart’s historic solo Records and he is hopeful that flight across the Atlantic. Jim he will be able to secure a diswrote the ...

... William O'Connell, will preside over the presentation of awards to the winning pilots. In addition, the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Rosebowl for the highest placed lady pilot and the Honourable the Irish Society Trophy for the first Northern Ireland ...

... brave man, and as such will be saluted. His dramatic landing at Aran will be talked about there for years to come just as Amelia Earhart’s descent from the sky to a field outside Derry did 50 years ago. Dickinson's epic voyage, while it might pe criticised ...

... a young lady from the Province. | use the word ‘appropriately’ because 1982 was the 50th anniversary of the landing of Amelia Earhart at Culmore and, as everybody knows, she was the first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic from west t 0 east ...

... AMBITION Ever since she first read of Amelia Earhart's exploits, which included the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic in 1932, Miss laguire has had the ambition to complete the route Miss Earhart was flying on what was to be her last record-bid ...

... aircraft she began in 1980 to plan for her Pacific flight. The Electra has been transformed into an exact duplicate of Amelia Earhart’s plane, and she has insisted that the engines, instruments and fuel capacity must be identical. Like Miss Earhart, Miss ...

... of Amelia Earhart’s last flight, on which she disappeared over the Pacific, will be competing in this year’s air race in memory of Miss Earhart. : Miss Maguire, who first became known to the flying enthusiasts in America in 1870 as “Amelia Earhart's ...

... Maggie McCay, an old shawl wrapped round her, wispy hair The exciting years were when hanging over her face, begging in the Amelia Earhart landed her plane in a streets, and regularly being jailed for field in Derry while on a solo flight — drunken behaviour ...

... asircraft, was winner of the London to Derry air race wishing American flyer Grace McGuire good luck in her attempt to emulate Amelia Earhart’s achievement and fly the Atlantic from America and land near the spot at Ballyarnett, Derry, where Amelia landed after ...

... reception at the Guildhall on Saturday because the 32 yearsold Amelia Earhart ‘lookalike” plans to fly around the world along the equator in a Lockhead 10E — the flight which Amelia Earhart was trying to complete when she mysteriously disappeared. Earhart ...