Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...course there are plenty of post-Lindbergh improvements along the way. Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue...
...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...