Word: lindberghism
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Hero Control. Since Lindbergh flew to Paris, 16 other planes have reached Europe from the U. S. Nearly as many have roared eastward to disaster; some of them to oblivion, others to be rescued. In the past season alone, six Europe-bound planes dropped into the Atlantic. The Pacific likewise has taken toll. Rescue work is often as dangerous as, usually more costly than the actual flights attempted. Formerly the Department of Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...
...line is an outgrowth of the old Transcontinental Air Transport, over which Col. Lindbergh flew the first 48 hr. air-&-rail trip three years ago. Last year it began to operate an all-air service for passengers, but included an overnight stop in Kansas City. It took 36 hours. The new Comet schedule was made possible by perfecting night-flying facilities...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...
...intercepted by radio, requested to find the Corsairs, lead them to Kearny. Pilot Charles F. Sullivan gingerly circled the city, picked up the two Navy ships, signaled with his wing lights dot-dot-dot-dash ("follow me"). Then he followed the radio beacon until he was directly over invisible Lindbergh Field, oriented himself, headed toward Kearny, guided by a radio groundsman who could follow the sound of his motor. All landed safely on the automobile-lit field...