42 Amelia Stanley Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images

September 22,2024

Amelia Earhart seen here at Hanworth Air Park in London following her successful solo flight across the Atlantic - only the third made and the first by a female pilot . She landed her Lockheed Vega 5b in a field in Londonderry / Derry on 21 May 1932. After spending the night in the farmer's house she travelled to Blackpool the next afternoon and then to Hanworth using two National Flying Services air taxis. It lists her pilot for the flight to Hanworth as Flight Lieutenant I W C Mackenzie , and that she was met on arrival at Hanworth by Mr Louis George Stanley Reynolds representing Lord Londonderry, the Secretary of State for Air, and by the Director of Civil Aviation Lieutenant-Colonel F C Shelmerdine. 22nd May 1932. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty