[DOC] [TLE] Roosevelt Field (airport) - Wikipedia [PAR] Roosevelt Field is a former airport, located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east-southeast of 
Mineola, Long ... Roosevelt Field was the takeoff point for many historic flights in 
the early ... of aviation, including Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo transatlantic 
flight. ... the entire field was taken over and renamed Hazelhurst Field after 
Leighton... [DOC] [TLE] Charles Lindbergh - Wikipedia [PAR] A few weeks after leaving Americus, the young airman also achieved another key 
aviation milestone when he made his first flight at night near Lake Village,... [DOC] [TLE] Will Rogers - Wikipedia [PAR] William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879  August 15, 1935) was a 
stage and ... Rogers even provided an epigram on his most famous epigram: ... 
Only after Will won acclaim in vaudeville did the rift begin to heal, but Clement's 
.... He made two other feature silents and a travelogue series in 1927, and did not
... [DOC] [TLE] Roosevelt Field (shopping mall) - Wikipedia [PAR] Roosevelt Field is an American shopping mall in East Garden City, Long Island, 
New York. ... airfield where Charles Lindbergh began his historic trans-Atlantic 
flight. ... After Stern's closed, the spot was taken over by Galyan's, which opened 
in ... security at Roosevelt Field was provided by a house security group made up
... [DOC] [TLE] Famous Firsts in Aviation - Infoplease [PAR] Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh in 1927. ... 
With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Piltre de Rozier made the first free flight, reaching 
a peak ... Germany's Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flew the first of his long 
series of .... Harold Harris bailed out of a crippled plane he was testing at McCook 
Field,... [DOC] [TLE] The history of aviation on Long Island | Newsday [PAR] Jul 22, 2012 ... July 22, 2012 3:40 PM ... The 25-year old accomplished the flight alone in a silver 
monoplane ... 1928: Charles Lindbergh poses with his famous plane, the Spirit of 
St. ... departed from Roosevelt Field for his 1927 trans-Atlantic flight. ... Despite 
some controversy over whether he ever made it to the North... [DOC] [TLE] Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: New York, Nassau County [PAR] The field was named after the world-famous Colonel James J. Fitzmaurice, .... 
The club obtained the use of approximately 200 acres of land for a flying field. ..... 
Standing outside his parents' house in Hicksville, he found the silence strange. 
..... Hazelhurst Aviation Field #1 / Curtiss Flying Field / Roosevelt Field, Garden 
City,... [DOC] [TLE] On This Day - The New York Times [PAR] Readers interested in key dates in history may continue to use it as a ... record by 
flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in 7 hours, ... after liftoff 
from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members: flight ..... traveler as he 
made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, 
Fla. [DOC] [TLE] Self Guided Tour of The Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New ... [PAR] Sep 25, 1992 ... United States in 1793, over 200 years ago with the balloon and more than .... His 
Tri Motor was made famous by Richard E. Byrd's flight over... [DOC] [TLE] major c. ray wassall-st. louis aviator of yesteryear - Greater St. Louis ... [PAR] field with cows but not horses, and you can leave a plane in a field overnight with 
... Doolittle, his contributions extended over more than 40 years; arguably, he was 
in the same league as the more famous. ... use as an air field, closing .... Flights 
lasting for days at a time made use of the relatively new technique of in-flight... [DOC] [TLE] Capsule Biographis of the 100 Heroes of Aviation - King Schools [PAR] In 1903, he made two attempts to launch the Aerodrome off the top of a ... the 
Nazis forced him to resign his post in Germany, he stayed in the U.S.A. and ... 
Built the first Lockheed Vega in 1927, an

Question: In 1951, Roosevelt Field, from which he made his famous 1927 flight, closed after 40 years in use
Answer: Charles Lindbergh