Harbour Grace

The great solo transatlantic flight still called to her, and on May 20th, 1932, Amelia Earhart climbed into her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B.

Taking off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, she was attempting to be the first woman to make the flight.

Her plan was to fly into Paris.

However, due to some technical and weather complications, things changed.

Here is Amelia Earhart recounting her trip.

I took off the famous Harbour Grace runway at dusk, about 7:30, I believe.

I flew for a couple of hours while sunset, uh, lasted, and then two more hours as the moon came up over a bank of clouds.

I had fair weather for four hours, then I ran into a storm, which was one of the most severe I have ever been in.

And the particular staleness of a small enclosed space with a working engine right ahead of the firewall Post flew with his one good eye on the instruments, picked up a heading for Newfoundland, and settled in.

His first stop was Harbor Grace, Newfoundland.

Refuel, a brief rest back in the air.

Next stop, Berlin, Germany.

It's on Eastlink Community TV, and, uh, uh, it's from 10 to 8.

We turn St. Francis School, thank you to administration at St. Francis School in Harbour Grace, into a studio, and we, uh, we've got an ask from, uh, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services for about three-quarters a million dollars worth of equipment.

Oof.

I'm confident that we can come up with that with our, with our donor base, and I'm also confident, or I'm hoping that we'll exceed our biggest telethon to date, put over a million dollars from the, all indications.

Yeah

... uh, it amazed me 'cause it's always the crossover to Placentia Healthcare Foundation as well, and you're so far.

The Trinity Conception area and the Placentia area, whenever we say them two in the same breath, I think of the drive, the length of time it takes me to get from Placentia and to get back to Trinity Conception or down Harbour Grace, Bay Roberts way.

Um, and it just amazes me always that, you know, y- you envelope that entire area.

Sorry, the 2nd, right? It's only the

2nd? It's this Friday, and if you're in Harbour Grace, I'm there on Wednesday for the last warm-up show, which is classically one of the trickiest ones of the whole run.

It's like the last chance to get everything all sorted out.

But I've been on this tour off and on since last June.

It's going to be great.

If everybody's looking for a good laugh and a nice night out just to take a breath and just sit back and, you know, roar for a while, because you're going to make them roar, this is the place to go.

So, yeah, you've got the— The old courthouse in Harbour Grace on Wednesday night.

That's an evening thing, right? And then Ericsson Culture here in St.

She did not have enough fuel for New York.

She did not have enough for Harbor Grace.

She needed to put it down.

Now here's where it gets interesting.

So that'll tell you.

Member of several teams from Harbour Grace won championships in the CBN League in the 70s, also a minor hockey coach, leading lots of teams to provincial championships, of course.

And there's a great post by the CB Stars noting from the very early days of the original stadium in Harbour Grace in 57, the SW Moors, to present day.

Joe was a part of the Conception Bay North hockey community, both on and off the ice.

Excellent defenseman.

Three hours and 30 minutes later, Bert Balkan brought the plane into St. John, New Brunswick.

Early the next morning, they flew to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.

Amelia found detailed weather reports from G.P. waiting for her when she arrived.

While Berndt and Eddie made a final check of the aircraft, she pored over the predictions.