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thoughtkick · 2 days

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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deviika · 1 year

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Charles Lindbergh // Kirsten Corley

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thehopefulquotes · 8 months

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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perfectfeelings · 7 months

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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quotefeeling · 1 year

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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perfectquote · 1 year

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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The Passing (1985) Directed by John Huckert

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feminismisstillahatemovement · 11 months

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On May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took to the skies of New York almost entirely unknown, and 33½ hours later landed in Paris the most famous man in the world, the first to fly solo across the Atlantic.

A crowd of 150,000 people greeted him there, causing the biggest traffic jam in France's history. They dragged him from the cockpit of The Spirit of Saint Louis and paraded him around on their shoulders for more than half an hour, while others stripped the plane bare of souvenirs. After patching it up again, he flew to Belgium and then London, where similar scenes unfolded and he was taken first to visit the Prime Minister and then King George V, who awarded him the Air Force Cross.

Then the President of the US sent a navy cruiser to pick him up and take him back home to America, a fleet of warships escorting him up the Potomac River to the Washington Navy Yard, where President Calvin Coolidge awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. From there back home to New York on June 13, where a ticker tape parade awaited him like few others and 4 million people turned out to see him.

It certainly was a busy old month for Charley Lindbergh, Time Magazine's first ever 'Man of The Year".

The winner of the 1930 Best Woman Aviator of the Year Award, Elinor Smith Sullivan, said that before Lindbergh's flight:

"People seemed to think we [aviators] were from outer space or something. But after Charles Lindbergh's flight, we could do no wrong. It's hard to describe the impact Lindbergh had on people. Even the first walk on the moon doesn't come close. The twenties was such an innocent time, and people were still so religious—I think they felt like this man was sent by God to do this."

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oldwinesoul · 1 year

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

—Charles Lindbergh

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resqectable · 9 months

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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perfeqt · 8 months

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months

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The airplane seemed far more alive and human than any machine I had ever flown.

Charles Lindbergh

The cockpit in which Charles Lindbergh sat while piloting the first aircraft to make a solo non-stop transatlantic flight, the Spirit of Saint Louis, in May of 1927 was as pioneering as the flight itself.

It was an unusual design to an ordinary layout of a cockpit of that era. A periscope was used instead of a forward window. The Spirit was designed and built in San Diego to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which was offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic non-stop, either from New York to Paris or vice versa. Lindbergh, a U.S. Air Mail pilot, believed that a single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane would provide him with the best chance of success.

Under his close supervision, the Spirit was designed and constructed in just 60 days. To enhance the centre of gravity and minimise the risk of being crushed in case of a crash, Lindbergh had the large main and forward fuel tanks placed in the front section of the fuselage, ahead of the pilot, with the oil tank acting as a firewall. As a result of this design choice, there was no front windshield, and forward visibility was limited to the side windows.

However, this arrangement didn't bother Lindbergh, as he was accustomed to flying in the rear cockpit of mail planes with mail bags in the front. When he needed to see forward, he would simply look out the sides. To address the need for some forward vision, Lindbergh enlisted the help of a former submarine serviceman to design and install a periscope. Inside the cramped cockpit, measuring 94 cm wide, 81 cm long, and 130 cm high, Lindbergh couldn't even stretch his legs.

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newyorkthegoldenage · 11 months

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This picture shows in wonderful detail what life was like on the streets of New York in the 1920s (be sure to enlarge!). It was, specifically, June 13, 1927, the day the city threw a ticker tape parade for returning hero Charles Lindbergh. These people are scrambling for a vantage point from which to see the excitement.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #1920s #Charles Lindbergh #ticker tape parade #June 13 #13 June #Lindbergh parade #Lindbergh celebration #crowds #Fifth Ave.#5th Ave.

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thehopefulquotes · 2 years

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Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

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