Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airplane Man/' The Lindberghs continued their northering flight to the Orient, making the supposedly hazardous stretch from Baker Lake 1,115 mi-to Aklavik, extreme northwest Canada, with a precision that silenced alarmists. Bad weather bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they were lionized by the 35 white residents and the hundred or so Eskimos (to whom Col. Lindbergh was "Big Airplane Man"). When the fog cleared along the Arctic coast the Lindberghs flew on to icebound Point Barrow, Alaska, to the indescribable delight of the residents who had received neither visitors...
...most distinguished aviator (meaning Lindbergh), will meet with an accident in September-serious, but not fatal...
...land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward transatlantic flyers since Lindbergh (1927) to reach their destination nonstop, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha bemedaled Pilots Boardman & Polando...
Northern Passage. With "no official starting point and no finish," Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife set out upon a pleasure flight to the Orient. They said goodbyes at Washington, New York, and at the estate of Father-in-Law Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair...
...York Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh received permission to fly over Soviet territory on their proposed flight to the Orient, arranged for fuel caches, tested their plane remodeled for the trip...