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1928
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart lands in the Burry Estuary after her pioneering flight across the Atlantic 'Rain, millions of gallons of it, and fog, hundreds of miles of it.' So Amelia Earhart (1898 to 1937) summed up flying across the Atlantic. The American aviation pioneer achieved fame as the first woman passenger to make the journey by air, in a trimotored Fokker monoplane, on 17 and 18 June 1928. The Burry Estuary was their landing ground, and the small town of Burry Port was catapulted into the headlines; for most of the residents, this was the first aeroplane they had seen. Four years later, in May 1932, Earhart made her solo Atlantic crossing.
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From Pieces of Tape first broadcast 18/06/1928, 13/01/1933
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