Charles Lindbergh was celebrated with a huge parade in Washington, D.C. upon returning from his historic 1927 transatlantic flight.
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Lindbergh a Guest at Hoover’s Summer Camp; Horseshoe Champion of Rapidan
Stories like this are great. We forget that the men and women we read about in history books and Wikipedia were also normal people just like us — okay, most of them accomplished great things that we likely won’t be …
Read More »First Supersonic Transatlantic Commercial Flight Lands at Dulles (1976)
May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Long Island, heading east in the Spirit of St. Louis and lands in Paris about 33 hours later, completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Almost exactly 47 years later, …
Read More »Lindbergh and Wife Land in D.C. Just Prior to Crash
No, not a plane crash … I mean THE Crash of ’29 (i.e., the Wall Street Crash). This photo is from September 18th, 1929 and is a shot of the Charles and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, four months after their nuptials. They …
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