... Chairman, Councillor William McCartney who said the air race would be ‘‘one of the most exciting ventures to emerge from the Amelia Earhart celebrations because it was anticipated the race would attract very wide publicity. the race has been completed,” he ...

... warning to the powers that be in Londonderry that the stage is coming when Londonderry will actually have to prove that Amelia Earhart did land in Londonderry, and put the city into the headlines of the world’s Press. About three years ago the “Sentinel” ...

... Earhart scheme won top tourism Londonderry City Council won a Northern Irelnad Tourist Board award for the Amelia Earhart anniversary celebrations staged in the cityinMay. The celebrations, which included the erection of a memorial where Miss Earhart ...

... WORLD FLIGHT. MISS EARHART CROSSES ATLANTIC. Dakar, Monday. —Miss Amelia Earhart landed St. Louis, sixty miles north of here to-night, having crossed the Atlantic from Port Natal, Brasil, in 18 hrs. 17 mins. She is the third woman to cross this 8,000 ...

... FOR PRESENTATION TO CITY He said in his letter: “The field in question is that in which Miss Amelia Earhart landed following her trans-Atlantic flight in 1932, The field measures approximately twenty acres and will be on offer by public auction on Thursday ...

... the Siege began. After pa'sing Boom Hall going from Londonderry on the left-hand side of the road is the spot where Miss Amelia Earhart landed after her romantic Atlantic flight in 1H32. ...

... MEW T&AJTSATLAimo VUOBT. MISS AMELIA EARHART’S PLANS. New York, Monday.—Miss Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. Palmer Putnam), who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane, is planning new Transatlantio flight, says the New York Neiwa’ The flight ...

... written to Londonderry Rural Council suggesting a site for the proposed plaque to be erected to mark the place where Miss Amelia Earhart landed in May, 1932, after her record breaking flight from Newfoundland in the pioneer days of trans-Atlantic aviation ...

... CUW ASHOBX. The seaplane Friendship was still at her moorings at Burryport, Carmarthen, last night, and her crew. Miss Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stultz, and a mechanic named (lordon, arranged to spend the n'ght at a local hotel. They are expected Southampton ...

... investigating the possibility of agplymg for funding from the European Regional Fund, which is responsible for financing the Amelia Earhart Cottage at Ballyarnet and the Railway Museum at Foyle Road. The basic idea o(h.the ra':lli)low trout fishery, which the ...

... Avenue. Tankards Londonderry City ‘ouncil's Amenities and Leisure Committee rced on Thursday that Participants in - the Amelia Earhart Alr face would receive a Pewter tankard, made in the “SEes to (Ummemorate the event 'he Town Clerk, Mr. Lolin’ Geary, ...

... SPECIAL BARBECUE TO MARK THE OCCASION The Eglinton Flying Club will, at the weekend, celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s solo crossing of the Atlantic in 1932, The celebrations will involve a fly-in by pilots from many clubs throughout the ...