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The tomboy who grew up to fly the Atlantic

... The tomboy who grew up to fly the Atlantic IF ANYONE had asked the American flyer, Amelia Earhart, why she wanted to risk her life crossing a seemingly limitless expanse of water in a rickety monoplane. she probably would have replied: For the fun of ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1982
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1847 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

444 WOMEN PILOTS IN STATES. FROM SWEET 17 TO 60

... to make air records that make male pilots gasp. Over 1.000 flying hours stand to the credit of 14. Among them is Miss Amelia Earhart, America's Lady Lindy, who is at the present moment planning to set off again after her failure to fly round the world ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CARDINAL WILL NOT ANSWER

... Minister Joseph Goebbels by any cornment or reply.—Reuter. WOMAN'S WORLD FLIGHT. MISS EARHART'S 28,000 MILLS TRIP. Miss Amelia Earhart. the airwoman. plans to take off early this week on her second attempt to Ay round the world (states the Daily Telegraph ...

Published: Monday 31 May 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ENVELOPED IN PARACHUTE

... conditions. In spite of the weather conditions a large crowd watched the amazing stunts performed by the pilots. Miss Amelia Earhart, the American woman Atlantic flyer, flew from Heston with Mr. Gordon Selfridge, junior, in his aeroplane, and was . given ...

Published: Monday 30 May 1932
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AMELIA EAIIHART'S TESTS

... has invented a chemical dust which disperses fog when brought into contact with it. Mrs. G. P. Putnam, better known as Amelia Earhart, the famous airwoman, expressed confidence in the possibilities of the invention after completing practical tests in an ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1936
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PACIFIC FLIGHT PERIL

... and Hawaii. Captain Frank Flynn. a member of the Nations! Aeronautical Aasociation, hat. sent au open letter to Miss Amelia Earhart, begging her to abandon her plan to fly to the mainland from Honolulu. Fifty per cent of the aeroplanes that have started ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1935
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

lONE FOR MISS EARITARTS FIANCE

... lONE FOR MISS EARITARTS FIANCE. Miss Amelia Earhart, the Atlantic flyer, had • two hours' flight round London on Sunday morning and afterwards lunched with L•dy Astor, there being about forty guests present. To-day she is lunrhinig with Lady Heath and ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART WAS GUEST

... MISS EARHART WAS GUEST. Another distinguished visitor was Miss Amelia Earhart, the famous American airwoman, who made the hotel her headquarters after landing at Derry on the occasion of her solo flight across the Atlantic, and used the hotel 'phone to ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1942
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICAN BROKER'S PLANS

... his schooner was being fitted out at San Francisco and would leave early next month to search the South Seas for Miss Amelia Earhart. who disappeared while flying the Pacific last July (states the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post San Francisco corr ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1938
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1937. HOPE FOR LADY LINDY FAST FADING NO FURTHER SIGNALS FATE SHOULD BE ..

... FURTHER SIGNALS FATE SHOULD BE KNOWN BY MONDAY IT IS THE WAY SHE WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO DIE HOPE IS FAST FADING THAT MISS AMELIA EARHART WILL BE SAVED. FIVE DAYS HAVE NOW PASSED SINCE SHE AND HER NAVIGATOR, CAPTAIN NOONAN, WERE REPORTED MISSING IN THE PACIFIC ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

OVER THE EQUATORIAL BELT

... OVER THE EQUATORIAL BELT. Miss Amelia Earhart, who has flown the Atlantic twice and made the only solo flight (rem Hawaii to California. described to me on Friday her plans for a 27.000-mile flight round the world in the region of the Enuator (states ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1937
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIRST WOMAN TO FLY A PLANE SOLO DIES

... crossing. Her fellow pupils included the famous Wright bother; and her Voi's licence was numbared 31S. Captain Herveux taught Amelia Earhart to fly and her flying career in all extended over 30 years. A bachseat driver Mk. 4 with a high.pitched yoke telephoned ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1955
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 7 | Tags: none