... 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 ...

... Sister 9.00 T 4: Malibu 9.30 T 4: Hollyoaks 10.30 Test Cricket 1.00 Th• Lunchbreak 1.40 Test Crloket England v Now SAS Amelia Earhart Documentary about the feisty, glamorous woman pilot whose disappearance in 1937 during one of her record•breaking frights ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...