Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone recognizes that Lindy's flight has instilled greater enthusiasm in aviation than any other single thing, therefore nothing could be more fitting than to designate the week May 20-26 as his week. EVAN W. OST Kenosha...
...same in time suggested that other localities join Detroit in observing this that week. He agreed with me in a recent letter that the week beginning May 20 would then include the date of the most heroic feat of our day#151;Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...pals." Russell Owen in the Times said that he is not through, that he is merely going to stop making public appearances. He will go to San Diego, Calif., to inspect a plane that is being built for him (see p. 28). Perhaps he is pondering another spectacular flight, said Mr. Owen. All this is not very consistent, and the conclusion is that no man, not even Col. Lindbergh, knows what he is going...
Bruises, etc. Col. Lindbergh does not read the newspapers. He often has black and blue spots on his back, caused by mauling crowds. At first, he had difficulty in getting money for his transatlantic flight. "He even went to the makers of a famous cigaret and asked them to finance the flight to Paris in a plane bearing the name of their cigaret." So said Lieut. Maitland...
...Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...