You may have seen this but always good:
From: David Norvell
Date: 5/20/2016 1:38:34 PM
Subject: Lindbergh's flight to Paris
Win
Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has
posted on his Website a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and
risky takeoff in the "Spirit of St. Louis" on May 20th, 1927.
According to Perkins, his is unlike any other presentation of the Lindbergh
takeoff footage. Perkins painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras
that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, and mixed it
with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources, making it one of the most
interesting videos to be sent over the Internet!
It
will be more enjoyable if you FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
First, click on
"CONTACT" on the left, and then select #1. Watch them in order,
#1 through #4, each time going back to "Contact" and selecting the
next one.
If
you're an airplane or history buff, you will be glued to the screen through all
four episodes.
...What guts it took for
Lindbergh to overcome all the odds against him, and accomplish this amazing
feat. And when he landed in Paris, the mob that greeted him turned out to
be the most dangerous part of his trip!
A a postscript, I received this comment from Naval Academy contemporary and
long time pal, Lorie Moore:
Steve,
My uncle was the last
to shake his hand. You can see him about 4 minutes into tape 2 in a uniform
shaking hands. He was the police commissioner of Nassau County which is where
Roosevelt field is located. His name was John Beckman and was married to my
Dad’s sister Florence. I knew them as Aunt Florry and Uncle Jack. He died
suspiciously while I was home on leave from Boat School and she died a few
years later while I was overseas.
Best to you,
Lorie
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This is an important week
in aviation history. Leading the list was Charles Lindbergh's solo flight
across the Atlantic. It was a rainy morning on May 20, 1927, when Lindbergh
took off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field. He landed 33.5 hours later at Le Bourget
field in Paris, France.
Lindbergh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis carried so much fuel that it barely cleared the trees at the end of the runway when he took off for Paris at 7:52 a.m. But clear the trees he did and he remained airborne for 3,610 miles, averaging 108 miles per hour. The flight made Lindberg an international hero.
In July,1969, we watched on live TV as American Astronaut Neal Armstrong walked on the moon. Imagine the progress those two events represent. What technological miracles we've witnessed in our lifetimes!
Only 12 years after Lindbergh's historic flight, Pan American Airlines began transatlantic passenger and airmail service on May 20,1939, flying from New York City to Marseilles, France. The cabin actually had bunk beds built in, much like sleeper cars on trains today, so passengers could sleep part of the way across the ocean.
Lindbergh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis carried so much fuel that it barely cleared the trees at the end of the runway when he took off for Paris at 7:52 a.m. But clear the trees he did and he remained airborne for 3,610 miles, averaging 108 miles per hour. The flight made Lindberg an international hero.
In July,1969, we watched on live TV as American Astronaut Neal Armstrong walked on the moon. Imagine the progress those two events represent. What technological miracles we've witnessed in our lifetimes!
Only 12 years after Lindbergh's historic flight, Pan American Airlines began transatlantic passenger and airmail service on May 20,1939, flying from New York City to Marseilles, France. The cabin actually had bunk beds built in, much like sleeper cars on trains today, so passengers could sleep part of the way across the ocean.
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