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...there was a big commotion at one end of the floor and in walked Henry Ford with Charles Lindbergh. They walked down my aisle asking men what they were doing. I was working on a mechanical drawing of a clutch spring (which drove me out of engineering forever), and I was worried that they'd ask me a question because I didn't know what the hell I was doing--I'd been there only 30 days. I was just awestruck by the fact that there was Colonel Lindbergh with my new boss, coming to shake my hand...
...under Trippe always rode shotgun with any new airplane it ordered. Trippe hired Charles Lindbergh to ride his airplanes incognito, and Lindbergh's ideas helped shape the cabin of the first jets. He also served as a pathfinder, exploring possible commercial air routes across the Atlantic and over the polar regions of Asia. Pan Am engineers crawled all over Boeing as the company conceived the outline...
...Lindbergh humorously recollects her father'slists--one for each child, with items such as"Freedom and Responsibility," "Instinct andIntellect" and "Downfall of Civilization" neatlylisted in columns--that so closely paralleled herfather's safety checklists for his airplanes. The"Downfall of Civilization" lecture was especiallypopular, and "was prompted by our father'sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail...
Perhaps the most moving section of the book isthe chapter titled "The Lost Baby," in whichLindbergh explores the depths of her own loss, aswell as her mother's. The highly publicizedkidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was notspoken about in their household, as she describes:"I think...there was a common understanding amongthe siblings, during my grown-up years, that thisbaby [Charles Lindbergh, Jr.], like the 1927flight to Paris, was part of an era that hadnothing to do with us." Yet when Lindbergh's ownfirst son passed away at the same age that CharlesJr. was abducted, the story of her brother...
This book is not a tabloid that claims to havelocated the "real" Charles Lindbergh, Jr. out inNew Mexico, or a detailed account of the life ofan American hero. It is a story about one woman'sattempt to come to know her own family more fully,and her desire to share that journey with us.Lindbergh writes that "Although it is now morethan twenty years since he died, we are stilldirected and dominated by our father's strength ofcharacter. And although she is more than ninetyyears old...we are still redeemed, gentled andsustained by our mother." In this moving familyportrait...