Blog entries tagged Lindbergh

Hero Worship - By Thomas B. Haines

Kelley Welf — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:30:02 +0100

AOPA Pilot Magazine

July 2012 Volume 55 / Number 7

Waypoints
Hero worship

By Thomas B. Haines

We swapped Bonanza-owner stories in the back seat of the Lincoln Town Car, just as any two pilots might when they meet on a ramp somewhere. But I was pinching myself as Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong descri...

Speaking of Heroes

Kelley Welf — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:08:45 +0100

By Mitch Jackson, Staff Vice President, FedEx Corp. | 6/21/12

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul… we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream." Neil Armstrong

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes thin...

North Haven to China - Lindberghs Captivate the World in 1931

Kelley Welf — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:11:19 +0100

Special thanks to Kate Hotchkiss Taylor for contacting us and sharing the link to her article about the Lindberghs in North Haven as they prepared for their historic trip.

Below is an excerpt from her article:

"An hour and a half before they took off, you could have walked across the Thoroughfare on the rowboats," wrote Ellen Pratt (1906 - 2000) of the day Anne Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh left North Haven on what became the Gre...

Lindbergh's First Flight in the Spirit

Kelley Welf — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:39:15 +0100

It was 84 years ago today, that Charles Lindbergh took his first flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. "This morning I'm going to test the Spirit of St. Louis," Lindbergh wrote in his book The Spirit of St. Louis. "It's the 28th day of April ... What a beautiful machine it is, resting there on the field in front of the hangar, trim and slender, glea...

Did Lindbergh Really Put Cotton in His Ears During the NYP Flight?

Kelley Welf — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:00:49 +0100

This was a question on the minds of Mrs. Stamper’s 8th grade class from Hanover, Mass. The class had read a non-fiction excerpt called "Flying" by Reeve Lindbergh. As a follow-up, Mrs. Stamper showed the film "Spirit of St. Louis" with Jimmy Stewart. The students wanted to know:

Charles Lindbergh in Helmet Over the course of two months, Lindbergh obtained about 8 hours of flying instruction in the "Tourabout" with I.O. Biffle (Biff) who was his only instructor. There was no ground school connected to the flying course he obtained at Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. Instead, he worked around the factory to learn the ins and outs of airplanes.

Most of Lindbergh’s in...

In What Plane Did Lindbergh Learn to Fly?

Kelley Welf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:34:35 +0100

Thanks to those of you who ventured a guess in last week’s trivia question, “Does anyone know what plane Lindbergh learned to fly on?”

The answer is: the Lincoln Standard “Tourabout.”

Many of you answered the “Curtiss Jenny.” This was the first airplane Lindbergh owned, and he made his first solo flight in this plane, but he did not learn to fly in this aircraft.