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HISTORICAL EARHART FLIGHT COMMEMORATION

... ON THE AMELIA Earhart Exhibition at the Amelia Earhart Cottage, Ballyarnett, will be officially opened on Thursday, the 55th anniversary of Miss Earhart’s historic solo flight across the Atlantic. The exhibition is housed in the Amelia Earhart Cottage ...

Published: Tuesday 19 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... in Paris Charles Lindbergh completed the first transatlantic solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris On May 21 1932 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo Famous birthdays: Dr Andrei Sakharov Soviet dissident 66 Forbes Robinson ...

Published: Thursday 21 May 1987
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1796 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

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Published: Thursday 21 May 1987
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 473 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

– By Martin McGinley

... the tarmac. “1 can’t tell you how good the ground feels right now,” she said. It's fifty-five years last Thursday since Amelia Earhart completed the first trans-Atiantic solo flight by a woman when she landed in a field in Ballyarnett in front of a bemused ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Well Prepared

... James Spollen from Tullamore, who was waiting to take delivery of the ‘plane he bought in the States. Back in May 1932, Amelia Earhart tried and failed to keep her crossing attempt a secret, but since she planned to land in Paris her arrival in Derry came ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Terror

... aeroplane, but you have to push through your fear. It's one of those things about flying. “. '“l - “1 a tot closer to Amelia Earhart now — she must have gone through all kinds of scared feelings and exhilarating feelings just like | did, and she didn't ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

‘EARHART’ FLIGHT LANDS AT EGLINTON

... Airport outside Derry on Wednesday when an American woman pilot landed after re-tracing the famous Atlantic crossing made by Amelia Earhart fifty-five years ago. Mary Kelly from Oklahoma touched down shortly before 1 a.m. in her single-engine Cessna to fulfil ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY

... MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY WHEN AMELIA EARHART was asked in Derry if she'd like to return to the city by ‘plane, she replied: “’| think you had better get an airport here before you invite people to come here by air.” Derry did get its airport ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 11 | Tags: none