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... or twenty years ago a flight across the Atlantic would have been ** big news for the Press of two Continents. When Miss Amelia Earhart landed at Londonderry in 1932, after a solo flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the news was flashed to practically ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1942
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 452 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO FLY ATLANTIC ALONE

... TO FLY ATLANTIC ALONE Miss Earhart’s First “Hop” to Newfoundland Miss Amelia Earhart (Mrs. G. Palmer Putnam), the first woman to fiy across the Atlantic a iheavier than-ajx machine, left Teterboro Aerodrome, New Jersey, at 7-16 Greenwich time, yeeterday ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1932
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... 6513571 12.00 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 72668 12.30 Working Lunch. 98794 CBeebies: Binka (R) (C) (S) 74041649 m Amelia Earhart: The Final . (TVM 1994): (See Film Guide) (C) (S) 3570945 Stormont Live. The latest events from the Northern ireland Assembly ...

Published: Tuesday 07 May 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

ThevAmelia Earhart story ... part 2 A funny thing happened on the Racecourse Road..

... corridors of Londonderry City Council. It has obviously take the looming 50th anniversary to provide the catalyst for action. Amelia Earhart’s plane came to rest literally yards from the top of this histeric, M';ow rimmed field, a stone's t away from Hughie ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1982
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1039 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Chance

... near Londonderry. She had set a record for the fastest ever croasinj and enhanced her status as an intermation heroine. Amelia Earhart, or AE as she preferred to be known, had the perfect qualities for her public image. She was attractive, if not actually ...

Published: Monday 06 July 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1566 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

U & elcome to Ulster Geoff Hill, News Letter travel editor IT'S a standing joke among persnappers who can tear

... couple of weeks in a damp caravan. One year we even took it out of the garden. But heavens, these days young whip- ©® Amelia Earhart with mechanic Eddie Gorski and mentor Bert Balchen before taking off for France. Or so she thought ', 3 I ondonderry: ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1994
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 490 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Trailblazer of the skies

... Trailblazer of the skies Even now there's romance in the great names from the golden age of flying. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and their geers are still famous alf a century after their great flights. One of the lesser-known lights of the Thirties was ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1980
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 503 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Women’s Singles

... Petra 6-4, 6-4, 10-8. MISS EARHART’S FLIGHT SYDNEY (New South Wales), Monday. After a six and a half hours’ flight Miss Amelia Earhart, who left Port Darwin (Northern Territory) late last night, arrived at Lae (New Guinea) at 6 a.m. British summer time ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

She set her sights on Paris but ended up in a Londonderry field

... sees the 50th anniversary of the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic. The frontier - crossing journey made Amelia Earhart the most famous lady of the Thirties. In a two - part feature, today and tomorrow, EDWARD SMITH reconstructs the historic ...

Published: Tuesday 04 May 1982
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 527 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART HOME

... Monday, York, city noted for delirious welcomes to returning heroes, shattered its own records for flight fever when Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, came home to-day. Broadway, that dazzling highway heroes,” was lined with thousands ...

Published: Tuesday 21 June 1932
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 487 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART’S MONOPLANE

... be Used in Attempt to Fly to Europe. New York, Monday. The tri-raotored monoplane, Friendship,” formerly flown by Miss Amelia Earhart, the woman Atlantic flier, has been sold to an Argentine group, according to Mr. Donald Woodward, who bought it from Lady ...

Published: Tuesday 02 April 1929
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ULSTER TERRITORIALS

... up their chant outside. MISS EARHART’S WORLD FUGHT The Second Stage Completed PARAMARIBO (Dutch Guiana), Thursday. Miss Amelia Earhart arrived here from Venezuela at 5-50 p.m. (London time) to-day on the second stage of her attempted West to East flight ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 520 | Page: 7 | Tags: none