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...LINDBERGH FLIES THE ATLANTIC ALONE...
...modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world, but which virtually demands a re-evaluation of the nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast, how could any list of the century's greatest events include Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic? Heroic though it was, symbolic though it was, the flight was one of those massively hyped events by which the America of the 1920s celebrated its excitement at being itself...
...week Ronald Reagan will present the Presidential Citizens Medal to Yeager, Rutan and his brother Burt, 43, Voyager's designer. Voyager, which reportedly cost $2 million and took five years to build, could wind up in the Smithsonian Institution. There, it would rest alongside such other craft as Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis and the Mercury space capsule, an inspiration for future record breakers...
...miles. But last week, while the attention of the nation was directed toward weightier, more dispiriting matters in Washington, Voyager sailed over the Pacific, over Africa and into the South Atlantic, more than halfway home, offering the world a needed distraction. Voyager's journey called to mind Charles Lindbergh's daring solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, and last week the Lone Eagle's widow was tracking the plane's progress. "I am holding my breath for them," said Anne Morrow Lindbergh of the crew. "What they are doing takes great courage and faith...
Voyager is trundling along at an average 110 miles an hour, an almost Victorian pace by jet-age standards. (Lindbergh's average cruising speed was 107 m.p.h.) While contemporary travel makes the world a smaller place as the Concorde zips from New York to Paris in less than four hours, the flight of Voyager seems to restore the planet to its full, true grandeur. Even if the plane does not make it all the way back, Yeager says, she will still feel a sense of achievement. "If we made the attempt and something happened to the airplane," she said...