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Lieutenant Coste and Captain Rignot hopped off from Le Bourget (Paris airport) in a Brequet biplane last week, hoping to reach Tchita, Siberia, 4,435 miles away. But fog and rain forced them down at Tobolsk, Siberia, only 3,125 miles away...
Frenchmen wished that the father, instead of the son, could have been on the field at Le Bourget...
...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
Poetry. The vision of a lone pilot in a grey bird (plane) over the yawning Atlantic caused many people to develop poetic ecstasy. The fruits of more than 200 inspirations reached the New York Times; the New York World reported 2% bushels of verse. But at Le Bourget, shortly after Captain Lindbergh landed a fortnight ago, there was a poet who squatted on the flying field to gain first-hand inspiration-like Francis Scott Key writing the Star Spangled Banner. The squatter was sleek Maurice Rostand, son of the late Edmond Rostand.* The results were disappointing, particularly when translated into...
Captain Lindbergh then told how he crossed southwestern England and the Channel, followed the Seine to Paris, where he circled the city before recognizing the flying field at Le Bourget. Said he: "I appreciated the reception which had been prepared for me and had intended taxiing up to the front of the hangars, but no sooner had my plane touched the ground than a human sea swept toward it. I saw there was danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop...