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sevenstrokeroll
18th May 2012, 22:22
May 20/21, the 85th anniversary of the Lindbergh New York to Paris non stop flight.
barit1
19th May 2012, 00:25
Lindbergh created the environment for very rapid advances in flight technology. Eleven years later, Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 flew the same route, carrying 5 souls in half the time. It was the first leg of his round-the-world flight (http://digital.library.unlv.edu/hughes/world.php).
sevenstrokeroll
20th May 2012, 02:38
talk about advancement...Le Bourget, the French Airport is still an airport (where Lindbergh landed)
and Roosevelt Field, where Lindbergh took off, is now a shopping mall!~
Lindbergh was instrumental in getting rocket scientist robert goddard funded, lindy developed the perfusion pump making organ transplants possible.