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...only 40 years ago that Charles A. Lindbergh did it, but now an average of nearly 24,000 people fly the Atlantic - every day. Most of them are eating their way across on the 707s and DC-8s, but down below there is a growing little flock of private adventurers who get their vacation kicks by playing Lindy - crossing the sea in a small plane with little but an extra load of gas and faith in their own skill. Last year about 300 private planes made the trip, and already in the first five months of this year, more than...
...Alcock and Brown, who flew the Atlantic nonstop eight years before Lindbergh's flight, I am baffled by what goes into the fabrication of American folklore. Would you resent the observation that Lindbergh was at least the 64th person to cross the Atlantic...
...fact remains that Lindbergh was first to conquer the Atlantic nonstop solo...
...facet of Lindbergh's life often overlooked is his role in rocketry. In 1929, attracted by skeptical reports of the pioneering rocket research of Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark University, Lindbergh visited Goddard at his Worcester home because, he said later, "I was trying to look far into the future of flight, and this took me into space. I realized the limitations of the propeller, and this led me into the field of rockets and jet propulsion, which I decided to investigate...
Unlike those who derided Goddard as the personification of the mad genius with dreams of space exploration, Lindbergh rightly thought Goddard's theories worthy of support at a time when Goddard had all but exhausted the meager research funds available to him. Lindbergh turned to Daniel Guggenheim, telling the philanthropist: "As far as I can tell, Goddard knows more about rockets than anybody else in the country," and "if we're ever going beyond airplanes and propellers, we'll probably have to go to rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During...