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3 unusual facts about Lindbergh


Anthony Scaduto

In 1974, Scaduto wrote Scapegoat, an investigation into the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was executed in April 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.

Jacob H. Friedman

Friedman's expert testimony at the civil trial of cartoonist Frank Moser, accused of running down the son of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Richard Bruno Hauptmann, proved decisive in securing a verdict for Hauptmann's widow.

Lincoln Standard L.S.5

Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza purchased and flew a L.S.5, named "Excelsior", making flights that earned him the reputation of "The Lindbergh of Mexico" in 1927.


Bellanca Airfield

His $25,000 WB-2 monoplane, Columbia, was the first choice of Charles Lindbergh for his trans-Atlantic flight after, on April 25, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta set the world endurance record for aircraft, staying aloft circling New York City for 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds and covering 4,100 miles, more than the 3,600 mile from New York to Paris.

BFGoodrich

1927 Charles Lindbergh's airplane, the "Spirit of St. Louis," which made the first successful non-stop flight across the Atlantic, was fitted with BFGoodrich tires.

Donald A. Hall

Lindbergh later stated in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Spirit of St. Louis, that the decision to go with Ryan Airlines would depend primarily on his estimate of the chief engineer, Donald Hall.

E-Genius

In addition, Eric Scott Raymond and his team participated in the Green Flight Challenge of the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) in the summer of 2011 in Santa Rosa with this aircraft, finishing second and winning the Lindbergh Prize for the quietest aircraft.

Emilio Carranza

Captain Emilio Carranza Rodríguez (December 9, 1905 – July 13, 1928) was a noted Mexican aviator and national hero, nicknamed the "Lindbergh of Mexico".

Fantomcat

Lindbergh the Pigeon (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) - The garbled blubblering companion of the Detective Team, who hates heights and therefore will not fly.

Geoffrey Gatza

Gatza grew up in Kenmore, Erie County, New York and attended Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District schools: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.

Jimmy Carter Regional Airport

Lindbergh's original JN-4 Jenny biplane, purchased and built at Souther Field, is on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Nassau County, New York.

Jon Lindbergh

Jon Lindbergh was born on August 16, 1932, five months after the kidnapping and death of his older brother, Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

Lindbergh Boulevard

Lindbergh Boulevard named after the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, is a section of U.S. Route 61 and U.S. Route 67 that extends through Missouri.

McDonnell Park

Shelters and Picnic Tables: The park features two main shelters with water, electricity barbecue pits and restrooms, McDonnell Shelter named after James S. McDonnell and Lindbergh Shelter named after Charles Lindbergh.

Medal of Honor Aircraft

Charles Lindbergh's custom Ryan aircraft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Remote surgery

One of the earliest remote surgeries was conducted on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean, with a surgeon (Dr. Jacques Marescaux) in New York performing a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient 6,230 km away in Strasbourg, France named Operation Lindbergh.

Robert H. Thayer

Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Henry Skillman Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932.

Robert Moriarty

He holds 14 international aviation records including Lindbergh's record for time between New York to Paris in two different categories.

Robertson Aircraft Corporation

The 1957 motion picture The Spirit of St. Louis featured an RAC DH-4 mailplane in flying sequences as well as Maj. Robertson (played by James Robertson, Jr.) and company Air Mail pilots Lindbergh (James Stewart) and Harlan A. "Bud" Gurney (Murray Hamilton) among its characters.

Ryan Airlines

Ryan Airline Company, an early aviation concern associated with Charles Lindbergh

Sal Lopes

Lopes has printed the work of: George Hoyningen-Huene, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Mary Ellen Mark, Ruth Bernhard, Helen Levitt, Robert Rauschenberg, George Platt Lynes, Anderson and Low, James Fee, Linda Connor, Lisette Model, Lotte Jacobi, Peter Lindbergh, Richard Gere, Phil Trager, Greg Gorman, Mark Seliger, Keith Carter, Henry Horenstein, Philippe Halsman, Nadav Kander, Ralph Mecke, Jill Freedman, Louis Faurer, and others.

The Flight across the Ocean

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 anti-interventionism and alleged Nazi sympathies.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

U.S. Route 67

Lindbergh, named for aviator Charles Lindbergh, continues north through Frontenac, Ladue, Creve Coeur, Maryland Heights, Bridgeton, Hazelwood and Florissant until it reaches Lewis & Clark Boulevard (Route 367).


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