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A pioneer's final flight...Rail:4l

... A pioneer's final flightRail:4l PRETTY American Amelia Earhart dreamed of little else but flying after she left school. The Boston social worker got her pilot's licence at 25, in the days when American flying was almost exclusively a job for men. However ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1980
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 295 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Drowning

... whatever happened to Lee, or wherever he went, one interesting fact remained. He took his passport with him. Tomorrow: could Amelia Earhart still be alive ...

Published: Monday 06 October 1980
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 104 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Secrecy

... her past. Late in 1972 a contemporary folk group brought out an album with the support of Goerner called The Search For Amelia Earhart, a curious tailpiece to all the theorising about America's first lady of 'flystery. ...

Published: Tuesday 07 October 1980
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 129 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

car the

... flights from Woodley Aerodrome, started by local bicycle and motorcycle maker Charles Powis. Also in that year, American Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic, although she and her two male passengers only just made it. With the engine ...

Published: Tuesday 17 December 1991
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 162 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... duster he has man unleashed. Comedy, with 10.30 FILM: THE EARLY smo Maud Vernon and John L Waxier. 12.05 THE SEARCH FOR AMELIA EARHART Dramnfeed documentary about the pioneering female aviator who disappeared in 1937 vitae attempting to fly solo around ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1996
Newspaper: Staines & Ashford News
County: Middlesex, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Garbo of the skies

... Of The Skies by lan Mackersey. 465 pp. Macdonald £14.95 Jean Batten was one of a trio of women fliers Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart were the other two who captured the public imagination in the years between the two World Wars. Their aeronautical exploits ...

Published: Friday 08 February 1991
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 741 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

SATELLITE

... Comedy) 1.40 FILM Hostile Witness (1968. Drama) 3.20 FILM - Bugles in the Afternoon (1952. Western) 4.45 TOTP 2 5.30 FILM Amelia Earhart . the Final Flight (1976. Blow) 7.00 Nsws and Sport; Weather 7.15 Assignment Islam Year Zero. Reporter David Loyn follows ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1996
Newspaper: Crawley News
County: Sussex, England
Type: | Words: 711 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

So truth is still stranger than fiction. Weekend TV films..

... still stranger than fiction. Weekend TV films FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM (BBC 2 I.3sp). Loosely based on the life of flyer Amelia Earhart, director Lothar Mendes's 1943 film stars Rosalind Russell and aviator Tonic Carter, with Fred Mac Murray and Herbert ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1985
Newspaper: Reading Evening Post
County: Berkshire, England
Type: | Words: 888 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

C BB 740 ;V: P l t le s r a n n al f i j a e t

... Cristoptrptrong(l933,Drama) 8.50 FILM (1966. 10.30 FILM: The Early Bird (1965. Comedy) 12.05 Untold Stones: the Search for Amelia Earhart 12.55 FILM: They Died with Their Boots On (1941, Wes rn) 3.10 FILM: Dodge City te (1939. Western) 4.55 Argenan Grand Prix ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1996
Newspaper: Crawley News
County: Sussex, England
Type: | Words: 2453 | Page: 33 | Tags: none