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Lindbergh Anniversary

Old 21st May 2003, 20:54
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Angel Lindbergh Anniversary

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"Lucky Lindy" landed near Paris 21 May 1927
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Oooh he would have cringed to see you call him Lucky Lindy - he did not like the nickname, on the basis that he did not think he was lucky at all. And I tend to agree with him. He thought out the flight in enormous, logical detail and was as prepared as it was possible to be.
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True - but it is what the media came up with, and it stuck.

Of course, there is always an element of luck in an undertaking like this.
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