Amelia Earhart Legacy Association
The Amelia Earhart Legacy Association is a voluntary community group. It was started up by a group of local woman who was passionate about the Amelia Earhart story. The aim of the Group is to promote the heritage, legacy and education inspired by the landing of Amelia Earhart in our town on May 21st 1932 on her first transatlantic solo flight within our city Derry, in the Borough of Londonderry, N.Ireland.
A pioneering aviator and inspirational figure, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and set…
The Amelia Earhart Legacy Association is a voluntary community group. It was started up by a group of local women who were…
Help to raise the profile of Amelia Earhart in Ireland, connect with members across Ireland and USA with a passion for The Amelia…
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
The ladies in red on Radio Drive 105 with Bill Waters
Committee members Nicole Denby and Brona Sharkey talked to Bill today about the event in [...]
The ladies in red meet Mark Patterson Radio Foyle
The Amelia Earhart Legacy Association committee went live on Radio Foyle with Mark Patterson to [...]
- NURSE : Amelia enlisting as a nurse’s aide at Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto, Canada, tending to wounded soldiers during World War I. The following year, Amelia enrolled as a premedical student at Columbia University in New York.
- LADY LINDY : Earhart was called “Lady Lindy” because her slim build and facial features resembled that of Charles Lindbergh, who was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
- ROOSEVELT : She developed a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, who wanted to learn how to fly. Earhart had planned to teach her, for which the First Lady even got her student permit.