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After the war Lindbergh, while still remaining a high-level consultant to Pan American World Airways, became an early, ardent and passionate conservationist, traveling around the world in the cause of the environment. In his last years his favorite spot was a simple, five-acre retreat on the Hawaiian island of Maui...
...Maui was where he chose to die and be buried. When doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York told him last month that he had only days to live, Lindbergh, confined to a stretcher, had himself flown to Maui, where he arranged the details of his funeral and burial as meticulously as he had planned his flight to Paris 47 years before. Following his instructions, he was buried within eight hours after his death. Hawaiian cowboys crafted a roughhewn casket of eucalyptus wood, and a grave was quickly dug atop a cliff overlooking the Pacific. His body...
Storied Victory. In contrast to the spartan funeral, tributes poured in from over the world, more befitting a great leader than a man who considered himself a simple aviator. President Ford said that Lindbergh "represented all that was best in our country-honesty, courage and the will to greatness." It is doubtful whether younger generations could fully appreciate his achievement. For those who were listening to their radios in 1927, however, or who have the wit and imagination to re-create the epoch in their own minds, Lindbergh's daring, lonely journey will remain forever matchless, a storied victory...
Died. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 72, Promethean American aviator (see THE NATION...
...Revolution. He founded the Seversky Aircraft Corp. (later Republic Aviation); helped develop the automatic bombsight, the automatic pilot and in-flight fueling; and built and test-flew a number of advanced fighters and amphibious planes. On the eve of World War II the autocratic Russian clashed with Isolationist Charles Lindbergh by arguing that the Axis could be defeated from the air, then spelled out a program for military dominance through long-range superbombers in a 1942 bestseller, Victory Through Air Power...