query: What was the name of the plane Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic?

title: Lindbergh High School (Washington)

text: Lindbergh High School (Washington) Lindbergh High School is a (senior) high school located in the southeastern section of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, in the Renton School District. It is named after Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. The school was founded in 1972. Freshmen, sophomores and juniors attended the first year, making the class of 1974 the first to graduate. Lindbergh's school motto is "ad astra", which is Latin for "to the stars". The crest features the Spirit of St. Louis (the plane that Charles Lindbergh flew),

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: of the book flew in space on the first competitive Ansari X Prize flight in 2004, SpaceShipOne flight 16P. The X Prize was inspired by the Orteig Prize that Lindbergh won for his flight. The Spirit of St. Louis (book) The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis", a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. The book covers a period of

title: Erik Lindbergh

text: how we travel around the planet." In May 2002, Erik Lindbergh honored the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's historic flight by re-tracing the flight across the Atlantic in a small single engine aircraft, a Lancair Columbia 300 dubbed "The New Spirit of St. Louis" which cost US$289,000. Leaving from San Diego, he flew to St Louis, then Farmingdale, New York, and then the most famous portion, the non-stop flight from Republic Airport on Long Island to Le Bourget Airport in Paris on May 2, 2002. The last portion of the flight was completed in 17 hours and 7 minutes, roughly

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is a 1976 American television film dramatisation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and stars Cliff DeYoung, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, and Walter Pidgeon. The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1, 1932. After preparing a bath, Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Sian Barbara Allen) is alerted by her nurse, Betty Gow, that her baby is not in its crib. They check with Charles

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Made for TV. Anthony Hopkins won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is a 1976 American television film dramatisation of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was directed by Buzz Kulik and stars Cliff DeYoung, Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, and Walter Pidgeon. The film opens with archive footage of Charles Lindbergh's pioneering transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis and the song “Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)”. Hopewell, New Jersey, March 1,

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the "[[Spirit of St. Louis]]", the fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane ([[Civil Aeronautics Authority|CAB]] registration: N-X-211) was designed jointly by Lindbergh and Ryan's chief engineer [[Donald A. Hall]]. The "Spirit" flew for the first time just two months later, and after a series of test flights Lindbergh took off from San Diego on . He went first to St. Louis, then on to Roosevelt Field on New York's Long Island. [[File:Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of Saint Louis (Crisco restoration, with wings).jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Lindbergh with the "Spirit of St. Louis" before his Paris flight]] In the early morning of Friday,

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: congressman, but a respected and sage companion to his young son. As Lindbergh flies through the long, solitary night toward Europe, forcing his sleep-obsessed mind to check and re-check his course, he recalls the night he was flying the mail from St. Louis to Chicago when he first thought of flying across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh believed he could make that flight, and he remembers his nine St. Louis friends who helped him purchase the "Spirit of St. Louis" and realize his dream. Lindbergh describes the thrill of spotting the first fishing boats off the coast of Ireland, and then

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: crossing the coast of France, and then following the Seine River all the way to Paris and Le Bourget field. In addition to an Afterword (pp. 495–501), Lindbergh included an extensive Appendix (pp. 503–562) containing his flight log, a flight map, his journal account of his return to the United States aboard the cruiser USS "Memphis", an article about the decorations, awards, and trophies he received, engineering data and engine specifications, 16 pages of photographs, various illustrations, and a glossary. "The Spirit of St. Louis" was the third book length account Lindbergh wrote of his solo trans-Atlantic flight. The first

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: The Spirit of St. Louis (book) The Spirit of St. Louis is an autobiographical account by Charles Lindbergh about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis", a custom-built, single engine, single-seat monoplane (Registration: N-X-211). The book was published on September 14, 1953, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. The book covers a period of time between September 1926 and May 1927, and is divided into two sections: "The Craft" and "New York to Paris". In the first section, "The Craft" (pp. 3–178), Lindbergh describes the latter days of

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: his career as an airmail pilot and presents his account of conceiving, planning, and executing the building of the "Spirit of St. Louis" aircraft. He describes the many challenges he faced, including getting financial backing, constructing an aircraft that could carry the necessary fuel and still fly, and completing the project within several months—other pilots were racing to achieve the first solo trans-Atlantic flight and win the $25,000 Orteig Prize. In the second section, "New York to Paris" (pp. 181–492), Lindbergh gives a detailed hour-by-hour account of his 33-hour solo flight above the Atlantic and northern Europe that began in

title: Lindbergh Boom

text: Lindbergh Boom The Lindbergh Boom (1927–1929) is a period of rapid interest in aviation following the awarding of the Orteig Prize to Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 non-stop solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. The Lindbergh Boom occurred during the interwar period between World War I and World War II, where aviation development was fueled by commercial interests rather than wartime necessity. During this period, dozens of companies were formed to create airlines, and aircraft for a new age in aviation. Many of the fledgling companies funded by stock went under as quick as they started as

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: covering in just over 116 hours of flight time. A year and two days after it had made its first flight, Lindbergh flew the "Spirit" from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., where it has been on public display at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] ever since. Over the previous 367 days, Lindbergh and the "Spirit" had logged 489 hours 28 minutes of flight time together. [[File:Spirit of St. Louis Smithsonian.JPG|thumb|right|The "Spirit of St. Louis" on display at the National Air and Space Museum]] A "Lindbergh boom" in aviation had begun. The volume of mail moving by air increased 50 percent within six

title: GoJet Airlines

text: is named after aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, who flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, the first person to do so. The airline was established in late 2004 by Trans States Holdings. GoJet took delivery of their first Bombardier CRJ-700 in June 2005. The airline received its initial Air Carrier Operating Certificate in September 2005 and began scheduled passenger services on October 4, 2005 with a United Express flight from Cincinnati, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois. By the end of 2009, GoJet took delivery of their 25th CRJ-700 aircraft. In October 2011, Delta Air Lines

title: Albert Champion (cyclist)

text: of almost 20 years until his wife sued him for "extreme cruelty." In 1922 he married a younger woman from Kansas City. In May 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew solo in the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic powered by spark plugs made by Champion's AC Spark Plug Company in Flint. Five months later, Champion collapsed and died suddenly at age forty-nine in his suite in the Hotel Meurice after being punched by his wife's married lover in the Hôtel de Crillon. Champion left his widow $15 million. Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors, said: "The keynote of Champion's

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: wrote a musical called "Der Lindberghflug" (The Lindbergh Flight) with music by [[Kurt Weill]] and [[Paul Hindemith]]. Because of Lindbergh's apparent Nazi sympathies, in 1950 Brecht removed all direct references to Lindbergh and renamed the piece "[[The Flight across the Ocean|Der Ozeanflug]]" (The Ocean Flight). In 2016, as part of his series of scores based around historical events, Adam Young released a score based around The Spirit of St. Louis's flight. During World War II, Lindbergh was a frequent target of [[Dr Seuss]]'s first political cartoons, published in the New York magazine [[PM (newspaper)|PM]], in which Geisel emphasised Lindbergh's anti-semitism

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: for [[Montgomery, Alabama]], some 140 miles to the west, for his first solo cross-country flight. He went on to spend much of the rest of 1923 engaged in almost nonstop barnstorming under the name of "Daredevil Lindbergh". Unlike the previous year, this time Lindbergh flew in his "own ship" as pilot. 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, Arkansas]]. [[File:Charles Lindbergh 1925.JPG|thumb|left|upright=0.75|2nd Lt. Charles A. Lindbergh, USASRC March 1925]] While Lindbergh was barnstorming in [[Lone Rock, Wisconsin]], on two occasions he

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: After quitting college in February 1922, Lindbergh enrolled at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation's flying school in Lincoln and flew for the first time on , as a passenger in a two-seat [[Standard J|Lincoln Standard "Tourabout"]] biplane trainer piloted by [[Otto Timm]]. A few days later, Lindbergh took his first formal flying lesson in that same machine, though he was never permitted to solo because he could not afford to post the requisite damage bond. To gain flight experience and earn money for further instruction, Lindbergh left Lincoln in June to spend the next few months [[barnstorming]] across Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado,

title: First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic

text: the American Charles Lindbergh, the Brazilian João Ribeiro de Barros and the Portuguese Sarmento de Beires, all of whom crossed the Atlantic in 1927. First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic The first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic was made by the Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922, to mark the centennial of Brazil's independence. Coutinho and Cabral flew in stages from Lisbon, Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using three different Fairey III biplanes, and covered a distance of between March 30 and June 17. Although the North Atlantic had already been traversed in

title: Lindbergh operation

text: to make this type of procedure possible. The name was derived from the American aviator Charles Lindbergh, because he was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The operation involved minimally invasive surgery: The 45-minute procedure consisted of a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient in surgical ward A in Strasbourg Civil Hospital, in Eastern France. From New York, the surgeon controlled the arms of the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System, designed by Computer Motion, to operate on the patient. The link between the robotic system and the surgeon was provided by a high-speed fiberoptic service deployed thanks

title: Rowing Across the Atlantic

text: Rowing Across the Atlantic Rowing Across the Atlantic () is a 1978 French animated short film directed by Jean-François Laguionie. It tells the story of a couple who leave New York City in a rowing boat and spend their lives together in the Atlantic Ocean. The film was scripted by Laguionie and Jean-Paul Gaspari and features the voices of Charlotte Maury and Jean-Pierre Sentier. It premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on 25 October 1978. The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, the Grand Prize at

title: Rowing Across the Atlantic

text: the 1978 Ottawa International Animation Festival and the César Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 4th César Awards. Rowing Across the Atlantic Rowing Across the Atlantic () is a 1978 French animated short film directed by Jean-François Laguionie. It tells the story of a couple who leave New York City in a rowing boat and spend their lives together in the Atlantic Ocean. The film was scripted by Laguionie and Jean-Paul Gaspari and features the voices of Charlotte Maury and Jean-Pierre Sentier. It premiered at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on 25

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: to buy a World War I surplus [[Curtiss JN-4|Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"]] biplane. Though Lindbergh had not touched an airplane in more than six months, he had already secretly decided he was ready to take to the air by himself. After a half-hour of dual time with a pilot who was visiting the field to pick up another surplus JN-4, Lindbergh flew solo for the first time in the Jenny he had just purchased for $500. After spending another week or so at the field to "practice" (thereby acquiring five hours of "pilot in command" time), Lindbergh took off from Americus

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: flew a local physician across the Wisconsin River to emergency calls that were otherwise unreachable due to flooding. He broke his propeller several times while landing, and on , 1923 he was grounded for a week when he ran into a ditch in [[Glencoe, Minnesota]] while flying his father—then running for the U.S. Senate—to a campaign stop. In October, Lindbergh flew his Jenny to [[Iowa]], where he sold it to a flying student. After selling the Jenny, Lindbergh returned to Lincoln by train. There, he joined Leon Klink and continued to barnstorm through the South for the next few months

title: The Flight Across the Ocean

text: at Berlin's Kroll Theatre on 5 December 1929, conducted by Otto Klemperer. The play was enlarged as "Der Flug der Lindbergh" in 1930, but the new portion was not set to music. In 1950, Brecht removed Lindbergh's name for a production by the Südwestrundfunk, adding a preface denouncing Lindbergh's contributions to the technology of terror bombing as well as his wartime isolationism and widely-known Nazi sympathies. The original line "My name is Charles Lindbergh" became "My name is of no account". "Hindemith, Weill: Der Lindberghflug" – Berlin Radio Orchestra and chorus (1930), Cologne Radio Orchestra and Pro Musica Vocal Ensemble

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: months, applications for pilots' licenses tripled, and the number of planes quadrupled. President [[Herbert Hoover]] appointed Lindbergh to the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]]. Lindbergh and [[Pan American World Airways]] head [[Juan Trippe]] were interested in developing a [[great circle]] air route across Alaska and Siberia to China and Japan. In the summer of 1931, with Trippe's support, Lindbergh and his wife flew from Long Island to [[Nome, Alaska]] and from there to Siberia, Japan and China. The route was not available for commercial service until after World WarII, as prewar aircraft lacked the range to fly Alaska to Japan

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Wyoming, and Montana as a [[wing walking|wing walker]] and [[Parachuting|parachutist]]. He also briefly worked as an airplane mechanic at the [[Billings, Montana]], municipal airport. [[File:"Daredevil Lindbergh".jpg|thumb|right|"Daredevil Lindbergh" in a re-engined Standard J-1, the plane in this photo often misidentified as a Curtiss "Jenny", probably 1925]] Lindbergh left flying with the onset of winter and returned to his father's home in Minnesota. His return to the air and first solo flight did not come until half a year later in May 1923 at [[Jimmy Carter Regional Airport|Souther Field]] in [[Americus, Georgia]], a former Army flight training field, where he had come

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the next hours, Lindbergh and the "Spirit" faced many challenges, which included skimming over [[Cumulonimbus cloud|storm clouds]] at and wave tops at as low as . The aircraft fought [[Icing conditions|icing]], flew blind through fog for several hours, and Lindbergh navigated only by [[Dead reckoning#Air navigation|dead reckoning]] (he was not proficient at navigating [[Celestial navigation|by the sun and stars]] and he rejected [[radio navigation]] gear as heavy and unreliable). He was fortunate that the winds over the Atlantic cancelled each other out, giving him zero wind drift – and thus accurate navigation during the long flight over featureless ocean. He

title: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

text: financial adviser at J. P. Morgan and Co., invited him to Mexico to advance good relations between it and the United States. At the time, Morrow was a shy 21-year-old senior at Smith College. Lindbergh was a courageous aviator whose solo flight across the Atlantic made him a hero of immense proportions. Still, the sight of the boyish aviator, who was staying with the Morrows, tugged at Morrow's heartstrings. She would later write in her diary: They were married in a private ceremony on May 27, 1929, at the home of her parents in Englewood, New Jersey. That year, Anne

title: The Westin Portland Harborview

text: to the Eastland Park Hotel. It kept that name through a 2004 renovation until it closed in 2011. The hotel was completely gutted and rebuilt as a modern business hotel and reopened as The Westin Portland Harborview on December 12, 2013. The Westin Portland Harborview The Westin Portland Harborview is a historic hotel in Portland, Maine, United States. The hotel was designed by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes and opened in 1927 as The Eastland, the largest hotel in New England. Aviator Charles Lindbergh stayed at The Eastland after returning from his historic solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

title: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

text: Lindbergh flew solo for the first time, and in 1930, she became the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot's license. In the 1930s, both together explored and charted air routes between continents. The Lindberghs were the first to fly from Africa to South America and explored polar air routes from North America to Asia and Europe. Their first child, Charles Jr, was born on Anne's 24th birthday, June 22, 1930. On March 1, 1932, the Lindberghs' first child, 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from their home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey outside Hopewell. Arriving

title: Lindbergh Forest

text: entry, "Lindbergh Forest," was suggested by Emilee Cate. She submitted the name in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had completed his famous trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. Cate was the wife of Sheriff J. Carroll Cate, who as a deputy sheriff had unsuccessfully defended the Knox County Jail from a lynch mob during the Riot of 1919. The Cates lived on Chamberlain Boulevard. Early residents of Lindbergh Forest included local business owners, local politicians, University of Tennessee professors, and Tennessee Valley Authority employees. During the 1930s, three consecutive mayors of Knoxville lived in Lindbergh Forest— John T. O'Connor, James Elmore,

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be seen by the public. "The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh" was the last film

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: be withdrawn from circulation and would therefore attract attention; the bills' serial numbers were also recorded. On , the child's remains were found in woods not far from the Lindbergh home. [[File:Charles Lindbergh testifying.jpg|thumb|right|Lindbergh testifying at the Hauptmann trial in 1935. Bruno Hauptmann can be seen on the right side of the photograph.]] In response to what was widely called "The Crime of the Century", Congress passed the so-called [[Federal Kidnapping Act|"Lindbergh Law"]], which made kidnapping a [[Federal crime|federal offense]] if the victim is taken across state lines or (as in the Lindbergh case) the kidnapper uses "the mail or...

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the name of a living person. A half-century later, a 13-Cent commemorative stamp (Scott #1710) depicting the "Spirit" flying low over the Atlantic Ocean was issued on , 1977, the 50th anniversary of the flight from [[Roosevelt Field]]. On , 1998, a 32¢ stamp with the legend "Lindbergh Flies Atlantic" (Scott #3184m) depicting Lindbergh and the ""Spirit"" was issued as part of the [[Celebrate the Century]] stamp sheet series. [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1974 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century American male writers]] [[Category:1927 in aviation]] [[Category:American anti-communists]] [[Category:American anti-war activists]] [[Category:American environmentalists]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:American military personnel who served in the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the [[Vought F4U Corsair]] fighter-bomber's rated capacity. At the time, several Marine squadrons were flying bomber escorts to destroy the Japanese stronghold of [[Rabaul]], [[New Britain]], in the Australian [[Territory of New Guinea]]. On , 1944, Lindbergh flew his first combat mission: a strafing run with [[VMF-222]] near the Japanese garrison of Rabaul. He also flew with [[VMF-216]], from the Marine Air Base at [[Torokina]], [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]]. Lindbergh was escorted on one of these missions by Lt. Robert E. (Lefty) McDonough, who refused to fly with Lindbergh again, as he did not want to be known as "the guy who

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: books for juvenile readers called the "[[Ted Scott Flying Stories]]" (1927–1943), which were written by a number of authors all using the "[[pen name|nom de plume]]" of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], in which the pilot hero was closely modeled after Lindbergh. Ted Scott duplicated the solo flight to Paris in the series' first volume, entitled "Over the Ocean to Paris" published in 1927. Another fictional literary reference to Lindbergh appears in the [[Agatha Christie]] book (1934) and movie "[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]" (1974) which begins with a fictionalized depiction of the [[Lindbergh baby kidnapping]].

title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

text: at the end of Vassili Slovic's 1995 documentary "Orson Welles: the One-Man Band." The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh is a short film made in 1984 by Orson Welles. The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill. In the film, Welles sits behind a typewriter at his desk and speaks of the human spirit, quoting the journal of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Welles was in visibly poor health himself when the film was made, and he did not intend for it to be

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: rendezvous to pay the ransom. The Bronx, April 2, 1932. Condon and Lindbergh drive to a cemetery to hand over the ransom. Lindbergh stays in the car while Condon meets the kidnapper. The kidnapper speaks with a German accent and tells Condon that his name is John. Condon hands over the ransom but is told that further instructions will be given on where to retrieve the child. Despite a search by air for a boat indicated in the instructions, they are unable to find the child. The following month, the body of the child is found just two miles from

title: Wings Across America 2008

text: come to fruition. In only 5 weeks from inception, 230 pilots had joined, representing all 48 continental United States. This type of project had been attempted before. What sets this project apart from all the others ever attempted or completed was that the pilots hand delivered the plane from pilot to pilot; the plane was never shipped by mail to its next destination. In this way a "chain" was created of pilots that personally flew the model, then handed it off to the next pilot, all across the continental United States. In the end, the model airplane flew in all

title: Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles)

text: Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles) The Lindbergh Beacon, an aircraft beacon atop the Los Angeles City Hall, operated nightly from April 26, 1928, until just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was restored to its original condition in 2001, and "Los Angeles" magazine described it as "a tiara of light atop our beautifully restored Los Angeles City Hall." City officials now occasionally put the beacon into operation for special occasions such as the year-end holidays. In an article of September 1, 1927, during construction of the hall and less than four months after the historic solo trans-Atlantic flight of Col.

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: Europe]], but he did achieve the first solo [[transatlantic flight]] and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the [[United States Army Reserve|U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve]], and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the [[Medal of Honor]], for the feat. Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., [[Lindbergh kidnapping|was kidnapped and murdered]] in what

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: Lindbergh (Cliff DeYoung), reading in his study, that the baby is not with him then immediately go to the nursery and discover an envelope near the window. Lindbergh orders Betty to ask their butler to call the police. Lindbergh informs his wife not to interfere with anything in the nursery and that their baby has been stolen. The police investigate the Lindbergh home and establish a command post in the garage. A ladder is found outside the nursery window along with a nearby footprint. Inside the house, the envelope is opened and Lindbergh reads a letter indicating his child is

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: to write to the Bronx Home News newspaper to offer himself as an intermediary in the ransom exchange. Condon receives a reply from the kidnapper and telephones Lindbergh, giving him confirmation that the letter has the unique signature with three holes in the paper with a demand for $70,000. Condon later telephones Lindbergh to inform him that he has received a package with the sleeping garment of the child. Lindbergh dons a disguise and is able to drive away from his home without attracting the attention of the massed press. Lindbergh identifies the garment and also retrieves instructions for the

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: bomber escort mission with the [[433d Weapons Squadron|433rd Fighter Squadron]] in the [[Seram Island|Ceram]] area, Lindbergh shot down a [[Mitsubishi Ki-51]] "Sonia" observation plane, piloted by Captain Saburo Shimada, commanding officer of the 73rd Independent Chutai. After the war, Lindbergh was touring the Nazi [[concentration camp]]s when he wrote in his autobiography that he was disgusted and angered. After World War II, Lindbergh lived in [[Darien, Connecticut|Darien]], [[Connecticut]] and served as a consultant to the [[Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force]] and to [[Pan American World Airways]]. With most of eastern Europe under Communist control, Lindbergh believed

title: The Westin Portland Harborview

text: The Westin Portland Harborview The Westin Portland Harborview is a historic hotel in Portland, Maine, United States. The hotel was designed by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes and opened in 1927 as The Eastland, the largest hotel in New England. Aviator Charles Lindbergh stayed at The Eastland after returning from his historic solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1946, the hotel gained attention, when it refused to allow former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to stay with her dog, Fala, for the night. She instead stayed at the Royal River Cabins in Yarmouth. In 1961, The Eastland was bought

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: banquet.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|Program for the New York "WE" Banquet (, 1927)]] Lindbergh flew from Washington, D.C. to New York City on , arriving in lower Manhattan. He traveled up the [[Broadway (Manhattan)#Canyon of Heroes|Canyon of Heroes]] to City Hall, where he was received by Mayor [[Jimmy Walker]]. A [[ticker-tape parade]] followed to Central Park Mall, where he was honored at another ceremony hosted by New York Governor [[Al Smith]] and attended by a crowd of 200,000. Some 4,000,000 persons saw Lindbergh that day. That evening, Lindbergh was accompanied by his mother and Mayor Walker when he was the guest of honor at

title: The Atlantic

text: Wire") was a sister site of TheAtlantic.com that aggregated news and opinions from online, print, radio, and television outlets. When "The Atlantic Wire" first launched in 2009, it curated op-eds from across the media spectrum and summarized significant positions in each debate. Expanded to encompass news and original reporting, regular features include "What I Read", showcasing the media diets of individuals from the worlds of entertainment, journalism, and politics, and "Trimming the Times", a summary of the feature editor's choices of the best content in "The New York Times". "The Atlantic Wire" rebranded itself as "The Wire" in November 2013.

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: dragged Lindbergh out of the cockpit, and literally carried him around above their heads for "nearly half an hour". Some damage was done to the "Spirit" (especially to the fine linen, silver-painted fabric covering on the [[fuselage]]) by souvenir hunters before pilot and plane reached the safety of a nearby hangar with the aid of French military fliers, soldiers, and police. Lindbergh's flight was certified by the National Aeronautic Association based on the readings from a sealed [[barograph]] placed in the "Spirit". [[File:CharlesLindbergh-RaymondOrteig.jpg|left|upright=0.75|thumb|Lindbergh accepting the prize from Orteig in New York, , 1927]] Lindbergh received unprecedented adulation after his historic

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Karen Pryor, daughter of author Philip Wylie; they divorced in 1997. Lindbergh is currently married to Maura Jansen. He had two daughters with Jansen. When his father was dying, Lindbergh took charge of transporting him from New York City to Hawaii to die, and helped build his father's grave. Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in the infamous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Jon's other Lindbergh siblings are: Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993),

title: History of aviation

text: invented a type of sextant incorporating two spirit levels to provide an artificial horizon). Five years later Charles Lindbergh took the Orteig Prize of $25,000 for the first "solo" non-stop crossing of the Atlantic. Months after Lindbergh, Paul Redfern was the first to solo the Caribbean Sea and was last seen flying over Venezuela. Australian Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was the first to fly across the larger Pacific Ocean in the Southern Cross. His crew left Oakland, California to make the first trans-Pacific flight to Australia in three stages. The first (from Oakland to Hawaii) was 2,400 miles, took 27

title: Battle of the Atlantic

text: of Allied invasion forces for the liberation of Europe. In November 1942, at the height of the Atlantic campaign, the US Navy escorted the Operation Torch invasion fleet across the Atlantic without hindrance, or even being detected. (This may be the ultimate example of the Allied practise of evasive routing.) In 1943 and 1944 the Allies transported some 3 million American and Allied servicemen across the Atlantic without significant loss. By 1945 the USN was able to wipe out in mid-Atlantic with little real difficulty a wolf-pack suspected of carrying V-weapons. Third, and unlike the Allies, the Germans were never

title: Lindbergh Range

text: the average temperature reaches -5 °C and the coldest is February when the temperature sinks to -19 °C. Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the

title: Lindbergh Range

text: Lindbergh Range The Lindbergh Range or Lindbergh Nunataks ( or "Lindbergh Nunatakker") is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. The range was observed and mapped in 1933 by Lauge Koch during aerial surveys made in the course of the 1931–34 Three-year Expedition to East Greenland. Koch named it after pioneering aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–1974), who reportedly had seen these tall nunataks previously during an eastward flight across the Greenland Ice Sheet and had discussed the matter with him when they met in Ella Island. Although not

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Reeve's other Lindbergh siblings include aquanaut Jon Lindbergh (1932-), Land Morrow Lindbergh (1937-), writer Anne Spencer Lindbergh (1940–1993), and conservationist Scott Lindbergh (1942-), who raised rare monkeys in France. Reeve discovered later in life that her father had three other families in Germany and Switzerland. Reeve's brother Land Morrow Lindbergh has been considered a possible model for central character in French writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince". The author visited the Lindbergh home in 1939, hoping to convince

title: Lindbergh, Atlanta

text: Lindbergh, Atlanta Lindbergh, officially Lindbergh/Morosgo, is a neighborhood in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the neighborhood consists of multi-use development combining retail, office and residential space. Lindbergh is bordered on the northwest by a freight railroad line, across which lie the Peachtree Park, Garden Hills, and Peachtree Hills neighborhoods. The eastern border is Georgia 400 and Pine Hills. The Armour industrial area is to the southwest, and to the southeast is I-85 and Lindridge/Martin Manor. A lake known as Mooney's Lake was originally located in Lindbergh, on the east side of Piedmont Road. Deuward S. Mooney developed

title: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

text: the Lindbergh home. Lindbergh identifies the body at that of his missing child. By November 1933, the New York detectives are tracing Gold Certificates, contained in the ransom money, that are now entering circulation. In September 15, 1934, a breakthrough is made when a gas station attendant receives a gold certificate from a customer. The attendant had been notified to watch out for ransom banknotes and wrote the car licence plate on a gold certificate he received. Under questioning, he describes the customer as having a German accent. The car was a brown Plymouth Sedan and is identified as belonging

title: The Spirit of Butts' Farm

text: the aircraft used by Charles Lindbergh in his transatlantic flight. The aircraft is on display at the National Model Aviation Museum. A backup plane for the transatlantic effort is in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. An article on the flight can be found in the October 2003 edition of Model Aviation Canada magazine. The Society for Technical Aeromodel Research (S.T.A.R.) was organized to help support the costs of the project. The Spirit of Butts' Farm The Spirit of Butts' Farm (also known as TAM 5) was the first model aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean on

title: All in the Name of Love

text: the title track from that year's film, "Armed and Dangerous". It was after this album that then-lead singer Barbara Weathers left the band to begin a solo career. Founding band member Duke Jones, who left the band very early on in their career, appears on this album, playing flugelhorn. All in the Name of Love All In The Name Of Love is a studio album by the R&B band Atlantic Starr released in 1987 upon Warner Bros. Records. The album rose to nos. 4 & 18 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Billboard 200 charts. All In The Name Of

title: Midway, San Diego

text: found in some areas. By the early 1900s central Midway was known as Dutch Flats and still included a lot of standing water. Dutch Flats was also the name of a small dirt airstrip in the area used by the Ryan Aeronautical Company, located near what are now Midway and Barnett streets. Dutch Flats became famous when Ryan built a specially designed aircraft for Charles A. Lindbergh, who tested it at Dutch Flats and then used it to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. A post office now located on the site contains several historic plaques commemorating Dutch Flats

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: flight. People were "behaving as though Lindbergh had walked on water, not flown over it". His mother's house in Detroit was surrounded by a crowd estimated at about 1,000. Countless newspapers, magazines, and radio shows wanted to interview him, and he was flooded with job offers from companies, think tanks, and universities. The French Foreign Office flew the American flag, the first time it had saluted someone who wasn't a head of state. Lindbergh also made a series of brief flights to Belgium and Great Britain in the "Spirit" before returning to the United States. [[Gaston Doumergue]], the [[President of

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: , 1927, Lindbergh took off from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]] across the Atlantic Ocean for Paris, France. His monoplane was loaded with 450 U.S. gallons (1,704 liters) of [[Aviation fuel|fuel]] that was strained repeatedly to avoid fuel line blockage. The fully loaded aircraft weighed , with takeoff hampered by a muddy, rain-soaked runway. Lindbergh's monoplane was powered by a [[Wright R-790 Whirlwind|J-5C]] [[Wright Whirlwind]] radial engine and gained speed very slowly during its 7:52a.m. takeoff, but cleared telephone lines at the far end of the field "by about twenty feet [six meters] with a fair reserve of flying speed". Over

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: Jon Lindbergh Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932) is a former underwater diver from the United States. He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh Jr. Jon's parents had discovered the name "Jon" in a book about Scandinavian

title: Anne Lindbergh

text: also divorced. She was married to Noel Perrin, American essayist and a professor at Dartmouth College, at the time of her death. They lived together in Thetford Center, Vermont. Anne Lindbergh wrote numerous books, most of them for children. Anne Lindbergh died of cancer in 1993 at her home in Thetford Center, Vermont, at the age of 53. Anne Lindbergh's eldest brother, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the first of six children born to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, died in 1932 in a famous kidnapping — what many termed at the time "the crime of the century". Anne's other Lindbergh siblings

title: Peter Lindbergh

text: work is inspired by early cinema (Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Eisenstein's "Potemkin"), Dorothea Lange's Depression-era images; also the surroundings of Lindbergh's own 1950s childhood living across the Rhine from the foreboding Krupp steelworks in the industrial Ruhrland city of Duisburg; dance and cabaret, landscapes and outer space. Peter Lindbergh Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck on 23 November 1944) is a German photographer and film director. Lindbergh is known for his cinematic images. Lindbergh was born on 23 November 1944 in Leszno, Poland. He spent his childhood in Duisburg. As a teenager, he worked as window dresser for the Karstadt and Horten

title: Lindbergh, Atlanta

text: rail line to Emory University along the Clifton Corridor. PATH400 is a multi-use trail that passes through the eastern portion of Lindbergh. Lindbergh, Atlanta Lindbergh, officially Lindbergh/Morosgo, is a neighborhood in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the neighborhood consists of multi-use development combining retail, office and residential space. Lindbergh is bordered on the northwest by a freight railroad line, across which lie the Peachtree Park, Garden Hills, and Peachtree Hills neighborhoods. The eastern border is Georgia 400 and Pine Hills. The Armour industrial area is to the southwest, and to the southeast is I-85 and Lindridge/Martin Manor.

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (film)

text: Lindbergh flies over Cape Cod, he realizes he has not slept in 28 hours. He recalls past times when he slept on railroad tracks, short bunk beds, and under a windmill. When "Slim" begins to doze, he is awakened by a fly. Over Nova Scotia, he sees a motorcyclist below, remembering his own Harley Davidson motorcycle traded in as partial payment for his first aircraft, a World War I war-surplus Curtiss Jenny. Over the seemingly endless Atlantic, Lindbergh remembers barnstorming across the Midwest in a flying circus. After 18 hours, "The Spirit"s wings and engine begin icing up and the

title: The Plane Tree

text: The Plane Tree The Plane Tree () is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Handan İpekçi, featuring Celile Toyon as a retired teacher who is the catalyst for the bi-monthly reunion of her extended family under the titular plane tree. The film, which opened on March 18, 2011 at number 2 in the Turkish box office, is one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2011. The film opened on nationwide general release in 218 screens across Turkey on at number 2 in the national box office with a first weekend gross of US$340,424. The film remained

title: The Plane Tree

text: in the Turkish box-office charts for 20 weeks and made a total gross of US$1,562,977. The Plane Tree The Plane Tree () is a 2011 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Handan İpekçi, featuring Celile Toyon as a retired teacher who is the catalyst for the bi-monthly reunion of her extended family under the titular plane tree. The film, which opened on March 18, 2011 at number 2 in the Turkish box office, is one of the highest grossing Turkish films of 2011. The film opened on nationwide general release in 218 screens across Turkey on at number 2

title: Girard B. Henderson

text: the Colorado Junior Republic School, which became the Alexander Dawson School. Henderson had a passion for flying ever since he saw Charles Lindbergh honored for his solo flight across the Atlantic with a ticker tape parade down Broadway in NYC in 1927. This experience moved Jerry to buy an open cockpit plane and learn how to fly. He was one of the nation’s earliest pilots. His pilot's license number was in the upper four digits and was signed by the surviving Wright Brothers. On September 1, 1978, Henderson invested in and was on the board of directors for Gulfstream American

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: eventually leading to the construction of the first [[Cardiopulmonary bypass|heart-lung machine]]. At the request of the United States military, Lindbergh traveled to Germany several times between 1936 and 1938 to evaluate German aviation. [[Hanna Reitsch]] demonstrated the [[Focke-Wulf Fw 61]] helicopter to Lindbergh in 1937, and he was the first American to examine Germany's newest bomber, the [[Junkers Ju 88]], and Germany's front-line [[fighter aircraft]], the [[Messerschmitt Bf 109]], which he was allowed to pilot. He said of the Bf 109 that he knew of "no other pursuit plane which combines simplicity of construction with such excellent performance characteristics". There

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the antiwar [[America First Committee]], which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] in 1941 after President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]] and flew fifty combat missions in the [[Pacific War|Pacific Theater]] of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission. In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist. Lindbergh and his

title: Dale Van Every

text: 1920 and went to work for the United Press news agency, first in New York, then around 1921, as a bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He eventually quit and pursued writing. With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic. He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience. His first novel, "Telling the World", was made into a 1928 movie of the same name; William Haines played a journalist who gets involved

title: The Plane Train

text: with a new station for Concourse E (which was constructed for international flights in preparation for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta) and trains lengthened from three cars to four. In 2002, Bombardier Transportation, which had recently acquired Adtranz, replaced the system's original C-100 vehicles with new Innovia APM 100 vehicles. Having operated without an official name since its opening, the system was officially given its current name of "The Plane Train" on August 10, 2010. In 2012, the Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. International Terminal and Concourse F opened along with another extension of the Plane Train. Ten additional vehicles

title: Listen! The Wind

text: Listen! The Wind Listen! The Wind is a 1938 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It tells the story of Lindbergh's and her husband Charles Lindbergh's 1933 flight from Africa to South America across the Atlantic Ocean. The book focuses on the last ten days of the flight, when weather conditions and illness caused trouble for the couple. The book has a foreword and map drawings by Charles Lindbergh. The title is taken from the British poet Humbert Wolfe's poem "Autumn Resignation". When the Lindberghs were waiting for enough wind to commence the flight in Gambia, Anne had

title: Pelle Lindbergh

text: this has happened. Although his number 31 was never officially retired by the Flyers, no Flyer has worn the number 31 since Lindbergh's death. Lindbergh is buried in Skogskyrkogården, a cemetery in southern Stockholm. Pelle Circle, a residential street in Far Northeast Philadelphia, was named in his honor when it was constructed in 1986. In 2006, a Swedish biography entitled "Pelle Lindbergh: Behind the White Mask" was written by Swedish author Thomas Tynander. An English version was published in fall 2009. The English version was translated by Bill Meltzer and published by Middle Atlantic Press. The Philadelphia Flyers named a

title: Lindbergh kidnapping

text: State Prison on April 3, 1936. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection." Legal scholars have referred to the trial as one of the "trials of the century". The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the "Lindbergh Law", which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime. At 7:30 p.m. on March 1, 1932, family nurse Betty Gow put 20 month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. into his crib. Around 9:30 p.m. Charles Lindbergh was in the library just below the baby's room when he

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: instructor) to first lay out and then serve as chief pilot for the newly designated [[Airmails of the United States#Beginning Contract Air Mail (CAM) service|Contract Air Mail]] Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] and [[Chicago]] (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] and [[Peoria, Illinois]]. Lindbergh and three other RAC pilots, Philip R. Love, Thomas P. Nelson, and [[Harlan Gurney|Harlan A. "Bud" Gurney]], flew the mail over CAM-2 in a fleet of four modified war-surplus [[Airco DH.4|de Havilland DH-4]] [[biplane]]s. Just before signing on to fly with CAM, Lindbergh had applied to serve

title: Jon Lindbergh

text: spring 1940 (when he was seven), his father placed him in a pasture with a butting ram in order to learn to protect himself from it. As a teenager, Lindbergh was allowed to make a solo three-day boat trip. He also learned to fly before leaving for college, but his father advised him not to pursue aviation as a career. In March 1953, when Lindbergh was a marine biology student at Stanford University, he made the first successful cave dive in the United States at Bower Cave in California. The dive was part of an expedition organized by speleologist Raymond

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: described as "the dramatic possibilities of the story of the great hero who became a great victim and a great villain". "Charles Lindbergh is a window onto the whole world -- a great lens for observing the American century," Berg elaborated. When asked about previous biographies of Lindbergh, Berg noted "The problem is most of what has been written about him is wrong or misleading." Berg had been interested earlier by the idea of writing a book on the life of Lindbergh but "had scratched Lindbergh off my list" when he heard that Lindbergh's papers were locked up and inaccessible.

title: Lindbergh (book)

text: Lindbergh (book) Lindbergh is a 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a "New York Times" Best Seller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Once he had completed his second book, "" (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in 1989, Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be "another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film". After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: brother, events which occurred years before she was born. In her latest book, "Two Lives" (Brigantine Media; 2018), Lindbergh reflects on how she navigates her role as the public face of arguably "the most famous family of the twentieth century," while leading a "very quiet existence in rural Vermont." Reeve Lindbergh's parents, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were considered a "golden couple". Her father's famous solo, non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927 occurred 18 years before she was born. Hailed as a hero, Charles went on to marry the daughter of wealthy businessman Dwight Morrow, then

title: Charles Lindbergh

text: the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] in late 1920, Lindbergh dropped out in the middle of his sophomore year and then went to [[Lincoln, Nebraska]], in March 1922 to begin flight training. [[File:Lincoln Standard biplane.jpg|thumb|left|[[Standard J|Lincoln Standard J]] biplane]] From an early age, Lindbergh had exhibited an interest in the mechanics of motorized transportation, including his family's [[Saxon (automobile)|Saxon Six]] automobile, and later his [[Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company|Excelsior]] motorbike. By the time he started college as a [[mechanical engineering]] student, he had also become fascinated with flying, though he "had never been close enough to a plane to touch it".

title: Battle of the Atlantic

text: The Allies lost 58 ships in the same period, 34 of these (totalling 134,000 tons) in the Atlantic. The Battle of the Atlantic was won by the Allies in two months. There was no single reason for this; what had changed was a sudden convergence of technologies, combined with an increase in Allied resources. The mid-Atlantic gap that had previously been unreachable by aircraft was closed by long-range Consolidated B-24 Liberators. On 18 March 1943 Roosevelt ordered Admiral King to transfer 60 Liberators from the Pacific theatre to the Atlantic to combat German U-Boats; one of only two direct orders

title: The Solo Collection

text: The Solo Collection The Solo Collection is a box set detailing the solo career of Freddie Mercury; it includes the material Mercury recorded before joining up with Queen, up through the 1993 No More Brothers remixes. Mercury's singles and two studio albums are included, as well as a disc of instrumentals, numerous rare tracks, and a set of interviews conducted by David Wigg. Also included are two DVDs: a collection of music videos, and a documentary covering Mercury's life. In early prints of the "Solo Collection" box, the third chapter of the DVD, "Culture Shock", includes what is described in

title: Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States

text: crossing within the hours of daylight, the flight established new records for time, distance, and average speed (128.37 mph) in transcontinental flights. Maughan's record was not eclipsed until August 20, 1928 when Hollywood stunt flier Arthur C. Goebel, in what was the first nonstop flight across the continent from west to east, flew from Los Angeles, California to Curtiss Field, New York in the Lockheed Vega "Yankee Doodle" (NX4789), in 18 hours and 58 minutes, averaging . Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States The "Dawn to dusk" transcontinental flight across the United States was a pioneering aviation record established

title: Reeve Lindbergh

text: serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. In 1932, the Lindbergh’s firstborn, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from their home in Hopewell, New Jersey — and killed — 13 years before Reeve was born. Reeve's parents never discussed the kidnapping with their children. As she relates, “ As the youngest, it’s been easiest for me. My brothers and older sister grew up under the shadow of the kidnapping and the war years.” In "The Names of the Mountains" Lindbergh reveals what life as a Lindbergh was like after the death of her father through a fictional family. "Under a Wing:

title: Charles August Lindbergh

text: Charles August Lindbergh Charles August Lindbergh (born Carl Månsson; January 20, 1859 – May 24, 1924) was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Lindbergh is best known as the father of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh was born Carl Månsson, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Lovisa Carlén, the 19-year-old mistress of Ola Månsson, a peasant member of the Riksdag of the Estates and a bank manager. When accused of bribery and embezzlement, Ola Månsson changed his name to

title: Lindbergh, Atlanta

text: artists played, such as Billy Joel, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and BB King. During this time, the Georgia Department of Transportation was acquiring land for what is now Georgia Route 400 freeway, and so the surrounding land had a network of dirt roads, one of which was located where Sidney Marcus Boulevard is today and which connected Buford Highway to Lindbergh Drive. In the late 1990s, planning began between MARTA, the City, developers, and BellSouth to build a town center for the neighborhood in the area surrounding the MARTA station and renovate Lindbergh Plaza shopping mall. Lindbergh City Center opened

title: Battle of the Atlantic

text: 1942 he had shifted his attention back to the North Atlantic. Convoy SC 94 marked the return of the U-boats to the convoys from Canada to Britain. The command centre for the submarines operating in the West, including the Atlantic also changed, moving to a newly constructed command bunker at the Château de Pignerolle just east of Angers on the Loire river. The headquarters was commanded by Hans-Rudolf Rösing. There were enough U-boats spread across the Atlantic to allow several wolf packs to attack many different convoy routes. Often as many as 10 to 15 boats would attack in one

title: The Press of Atlantic City

text: Vineland "Daily Journal". The newspaper was founded in 1895 by Walter Edge as the "Atlantic City Daily Press". In 1930 the name of the paper was changed to the "Atlantic City Press", and in 1971 the name was changed to "The Press". In 1988, its name was changed again to "The Press of Atlantic City", the name currently in use. The paper was owned from 1951–2013 by Abarta, a privately owned Pittsburgh-based holding company largely known for Coca-Cola bottling, and oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania. On January 14, 2013, Abarta officials announced they were selling the paper to focus

title: Wooster and Davis

text: his crew of three, USN Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Clarence Chamberlain w/plane owner Charles Levine, and a young airmail pilot named Charles Lindbergh. On the Paris side of the Atlantic their competitors were another World War One French ace, Charles Nungesser, and his navigator Francois Coli. Wooster and Davis flew a Keystone "Pathfinder" (N-X179) plane called "American Legion". Newsreel footage taken of the men and their plane are extant and record the duo's goings-on during that Spring of 1927. While testing with a heavy load of gas on April 26, 1927 the "Pathfinder" lost altitude and crashed on its nose

title: The Spirit of St. Louis (book)

text: the early morning hours of May 21, 1927. He describes the numerous challenges presented by navigation, storms, fuel calculation, boredom, and lack of sleep during the course of the flight that would take him over 3,600 miles from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York to Le Bourget field in Paris. Throughout the narrative, Lindbergh interjects flashback memories of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota, his college years, his early years as an aviator barnstorming across the countryside, his aviation mentors and friends who flew the mail routes with him, and his family—especially his father, who was not only a

title: Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose

text: decide what to do with the gang next when the volcano started to erupt. With the natives and Malagula in shock, the gang escaped back to the plane. The volcano caused a fault to crack and destroy the Malagula idol. This caused the natives to believe the volcano was mad at Malagula and stop worshiping him and chased Dread Baron and Mumbly back to the plane. After that we get one last look at Merkin and Firkin who flew to Moolah Moolah and again failed to invade Earth. But the plane wasn't out of danger yet; for the weight of

title: Lindbergh Boulevard

text: Route 267. It loses US 50 to I-44, at which point US 61 and US 67 continue north as Kirkwood Road, named after the suburb they pass through. The name Lindbergh Blvd is resumed north of Route 100. Shortly thereafter comes the interchange with I-64/US 40 where US 61 is lost to them traveling westbound. The remainder of Lindbergh Blvd, signed only as US 67, travels north through various communities before turning eastward north of I-270. From Florissant northward, US 67 continues as Highway 67 North, discontinuing the Lindbergh name. US 67 continues northeast towards the northern terminus of Route

text: First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic The first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic was made by the Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922, to mark the centennial of Brazil's independence. Coutinho and Cabral flew in stages from Lisbon, Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using three different Fairey III biplanes, and covered a distance of between March 30 and June 17. Although the North Atlantic had already been traversed in a non-stop flight by John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919, Coutinho and Cabral's flight remains notable as a milestone in transatlantic aviation, and

title: Love Across the Ocean

text: Love Across the Ocean "Love Across the Ocean" (stylized as "love across the ocean") is Koda Kumi's fifth domestic solo single. It charted at #19 on Oricon and stayed on the charts for four weeks. "love across the ocean" is Japanese R&B singer-songwriter Kumi Koda's fifth domestic single. The single peaked at #19 on the Oricon Weekly charts and remained on the charts for four weeks. It became her first single released for her second studio album, "grow into one," which would be released the following year on March 19. The title track was used in a television advertisement for

title: Banknotes of the Lithuanian litas

text: brief time (June–October). Since they were replaced in the same year, the first release is dated to 1991 and the second to 1993. The banknotes were not printed in Lithuania. At first they were printed by the "United States Banknote Corporation", later by the UK-based "Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd." and the Germany-based "Giesecke & Devrient GmbH". The reverse of the 10 litų banknote featured Lithuanian heroes, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas. In 1933 they flew from New York City over the Atlantic Ocean with a small plane called "Lituanica". However, the plane mysteriously crashed in Germany (now

title: Charles Nungesser

text: PL.8 biplane painted with Nungesser's old World War I insignia. Their plane was last sighted heading past Ireland and, when they never arrived, the assumption was that their plane had crashed in the North Atlantic Ocean. Two weeks later, American aviator Charles Lindbergh successfully crossed from New York to Paris and was given an immense hero's welcome by the French, even as they mourned for the losses of Nungesser and Coli. Over the years, there have been various investigations to try to determine what happened to Nungesser and Coli. Most believe that the plane came down in the Atlantic due

title: Technological and industrial history of the United States

text: importance for both sides ("see" Aviation in World War I); the US government appropriated $640 million in 1917 to procure 20,000 airplanes for the war for aerial reconnaissance, dogfighting, and aerial bombing. After the close of the war in 1918, the US government continued to fund peacetime aeronautical activities like airmail and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, industrial, university, and military research continued to realize gains in the power, maneuverability, and reliability of airplanes: Charles Lindbergh completed a solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927, Wiley Post flew around the world in nine days in

title: The Atlantic

text: the website is Adrienne LaFrance. "The Atlantic" also houses an editorial events arm, AtlanticLIVE; "Atlantic" Re:think, its creative marketing team; and Atlantic 57, a creative agency and consulting firm. "The Atlantic"'s president is Bob Cohn. The magazine, subscribed to by over 450,000 readers, publishes ten times a year. It was a monthly magazine for 144 years until 2001, when it published eleven issues; it has published ten issues yearly from 2003 on. It dropped "Monthly" from the cover starting with the January/February 2004 issue, and officially changed the name in 2007. "The Atlantic" features articles in the fields of politics,