The Lindbergh Flight - Original Footage

[scannon]

If you like history, you will like these videos. They are the real thing from the 1920's.

Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has posted on his Website, a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and risky takeoff in the "Spirit of St. Louis" (20 May, 1927).

According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the take off footage. Perkins said he "painstakingly assembled news footage from five cameras that filmed Lindbergh's takeoff from Roosevelt Field, Long Island "and "mixed it with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources."

 

When you click on the address, episode #3 comes up ready to play.

I suggest you first click on "CONTACT" to the left and select #1, then watch them in order, #1 through #4

(Each time going back to "contact" and selecting the next one).

What guts it took for Lindbergh to overcome the odds, and accomplish this amazing feat! It puts the competitors into perspective ... over a dozen planes and crews were poised or attempted the flight.

http://www.airportappraisals.com/

[xcarguy]

Excellent, Skip! Thanks for sharing. :cheers:

[Hettric]

fabulous Skip!

As a side note, the crate used to ship the plane back became a "camp" in New Hampshire.

[scannon]

fabulous Skip!

As a side note, the crate used to ship the plane back became a "camp" in New Hampshire.

 

What kind of camp? Any pictures?

[escondidoron]

Great post. Thanks ever so much.

 

I live and work in aerospace here in San Diego. Lindbergh's flight and the "Spirit" are both very important pieces of aviation history, especially here in San Diego, where the NYP (New York Paris) plane was built by Ryan and where LIndbergh's flight to Paris actually began. We are fortunate to have an exact replica of the "Spirit" that hangs in the terminal here at the airport, Lindbergh Field.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Spirit_of_St._Louis_at_San_Diego_Airport_DSCN0022.JPG/800px-Spirit_of_St._Louis_at_San_Diego_Airport_DSCN0022.JPG

I travel through the airport frequently and always stop to admire the plane and consider how significant the achievements of these early aviators were to pioneering the aviation advances necessary so that we may take the miracle of manned flight for granted today.

 

Thanks again for posting.

[Hettric]

What kind of camp? Any pictures?

 

I ment hunting camp as I remembered wrongly, this story describes it. I knew about it because I Contra dance and there is a dance named "Lindbergs crate". It's now moved to Maine as a attraction.

 

http://www.nhmagazine.com/November-2011/Lindberghs-Crate-The-Story-of-How-it-Became-a-Home-in-N.H./

 

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/6168

 

[xcarguy]

fabulous Skip!

As a side note, the crate used to ship the plane back became a "camp" in New Hampshire.

 

I must have missed this broadcast during Paul Harvey’s day. Now I know the rest of the story. :cheers:

[NVP66S]

I'll always remember my father recounting how he was glued to the radio during Lindbergh's takeoff.

 

Thanks for the link.