Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic after an unexpected landing.
Amelia Earhart had taken off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland in Canada, in a bid to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.On 21 May 1932, her 14-hour journey ended abruptly when she was forced to bring her Lockheed Vega 5B plane down in the Gallagher family's field at Ballyarnett, on the northern edge of Derry.
On Friday, STEM students from across Northern Ireland gathered at Ulster University's Magee campus to design and build their own model aeroplanes. Light aircraft from Eglinton Flying Club will take to the skies as part of the celebrations to mark the 90th anniversary. "When Amelia landed here, no one had ever seen a woman driving a car, let alone flying an airplane or wearing trousers," she says.
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